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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 10 years ago

What is "beauty", I still can't find a definition?

I have to write a essay on it, basically, "what is beauty". I looked up the real definition, and this is what I got.

"the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest)."

I get the whole "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", meaning everyone has their own opinion. Beauty to me, might be different to someone else. I myself don't have a definition of beauty. I can't define it. It seems like beauty always changes, their was a time when it was beautiful for men to wear powdered wigs. I just don't know. But what is beauty?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    I think beauty is your personality. Some really pretty girl can have an ugly personality, and this makes her look ugly. An "ugly" girl can have the best personality in the world, so she can come off as beautiful. I also think it is the eye of the beholder. I could find someone to be so attractive, but my best friend could find him/her to be hideous. I think that's why beauty is hard to define. You can write your essay about that.

  • 10 years ago

    This falls into the category of Socrates (at least i think it was socrates) talks about "what is good" and "what is truth" Truth and what is Good, seems to be some cut and dry stuff, but it isn't. Defining Beauty is like trying to Define Truth, it is ALWAYS in the eye of the beholder. But what can we consider truth? or beauty? TRUE Truth and Beauty? is it what the majority of humans on the planet agree on as Truth or Beauty? Is truth and beauty, in a sense a democratic census that cant truly be defined due to the vast amount of concepts that we as humans have the ability to perceive as truth and beauty?

    But the Question is HOW do we get to our conclusions on deciding what is Truth and what is Beautiful? To me this is an issue that concerns whether or not we have free will.

    I just got done reading a Yahoo Question that was titled "Do We Have Free Will?" It has a nice explanation of how we come to understand things.

    I feel that there is not definite Truth or Beauty in the world, It literally is in the eye of the beholder.

    But if you are writing an essay, than the definition you gave in your question is quite adequate.

  • 10 years ago

    On;y one scientist/philosopher knows what beauty aka "beautiful anything" is.

    That's the mind who wrote the definition--yours truly/

    Beauty is a category of objects, living things and created things, natural objects, conditions and states of matter which are find more-than-[perfectly-good-enough by one sane mind according to standards based upon reality space-time and its categorical conditions of necessity.

    In a phrase: the beautiful can't be less than above perfectly-good-enough, or it threatens the individual.

    It can't be arbitrary, because that would expand the category to include subjective emotional or attitudinal reactions by the unrealist-insane.

    Beautiful's meaningful opposites are the middle term _"just good enough" or "middling"and the negative term "ugly"--significantly less-than-good-enough to the point of causing annoyance o the judge involved.

    Beauty is not skin deep nor outward appearances nor conventional; it is that which over time is found my a scientific categorically-defining mind to be significantly more than perfectly-good-enough in every respect

    The secondary sort, "that which seems, appears or "is immediately or short term believed to be more-tan-perfectly-good-enough" means "attractive", not beautiful; such an immediate appearance always needs to be checked before it can be admitted to the judged, admirable and approved category by application of the categoric definition involved. The beautiful is eternal and categoric, not ephemeral or unique to one mind, since reality space-time and what is valuable o the self within it as an adult realist does not now and cannot ever change; here are degrees of beauty, but only an

    either-or--it's beautiful at some point for reasons or it isn't.

    Thanks for asking.

  • 10 years ago

    well i do not know bout u but i could write an essay with what u got saying beauty is different to everyone and that beauty cannot be defined very well because it is the opinion of the person and that beauty is not only seeing also add that beauty changes through time

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  • 10 years ago

    For me it's a sight, feeling or presence that puts me at ease and gives me peace. There is a certain rest I feel from it. This can be found in a beautiful sunset, a calm ocean or lake; even a beautiful painting or picture. It can also be the presence of someone you admire, or just a breeze at just the right moment. This to me is beauty.

  • 10 years ago

    Basically just explain what beauty is in your eyes.

    And then if you must ask one of your friends to describe what beauty is to them and then compare them in your essay.

    Beauty to me is midnight at a beach with the stars and moon reflecting off the water. That's the thing in life I find most beautiful.

  • 10 years ago

    How about if you look for synonyms for beautiful. If you look up the other words and their definitions, maybe than you get other ideas what to write

    Beauty affects you emotionaly and can be sound, looks or smell. Beauty you take in with your senses.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Beauty is a glimpse

    of the underlying

    Right-ness

    of Things.

  • 10 years ago

    Something eye catching that a specific person may find hard to forget.

    That's a terrible definition, but it's all I got.

  • 10 years ago

    Beauty is truth recognizing itself as truth.

    Great and true beauty cannot be comprehended by the mind, nor can the mind create it. Beauty can only be acknowledged and created by the greater intelligence that rises form above the mind and our compulsive thinking. This greater intelligence knows also truth, and this truth is where all beauty comes.

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