Catch Light

Cut Both Ways

Dim When Noticed

Leave You Breathless

Occupy Attention

Pull Focus

Resist Being Counted

Slip Away

Survive Translation

Take Your Breath Away

beauty

collective noun

ugliness

baldness

Ancient Egyptian

trivia

opthalmologist

beautiful

loving

being pretty

pep talk

beer goggles

rich

false humility

cluelessness

physical appearance

is, without modesty, like a flower broken from its stem.

Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem

is a concept structured by relativism: For a toad, it is a large flat mouth, a yellow belly, and a brown back.

Ask a toad what beauty is. . . . He will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly, and a brown back (voltaire)

is a form concerning perception which adheres to laws (just like the laws of nature). These laws could be discovered by systematic, empirical, scientific investigations of representations in direct perception.

Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762) believed that the laws of beauty, like the laws of nature, could be uncovered by systematic, empirical investigations. He called for the establishment of a new science, which he named aesthetics. This science was intended to investigate direct perception in which particular representations are combined into a whole. Baumgarten was not influential among philosophers, but psychologist and mathematicians from the nineteenth century onward pursued his vision, seeking to translate the traditional formula unity in variety into measurable variables.( http://science.jrank.org/pages/8444/Beauty-Ugliness-Definitions-Beauty.html#ixzz3uPNopSoT)

is a form of order which escapes mechanical patterns and is marked by freedom, diversity, and uniqueness.

Monroe C. Beardsley (1915-1985), one of the most influential aestheticians of the last century, criticizes attempts to render beauty or good art in terms of a happy medium or an average. He maintains that the identification of complexity with disorder fails to explain the fact that complexity is a relevant ground for praise, and that the degree of informative value is not high enough to establish the aesthetic worth of an object. Beardsley agrees that beauty is a form of order, but argues that the beauty formula inspired by information theory leads to absurdities. Aesthetic order, according to Beardsley, escapes mechanical patterns and is marked by freedom, diversity, and uniqueness (1968). Abraham Moles (1920-1992) similarly acknowledges the limitations of information theory. He distinguishes between semantic information and aesthetic information. Semantic information has a universal logic and can be expressed in different languages. Aesthetic information cannot be translated into any other language or system of logic... it refers to particular objects apprehended by particular spectators (1966). ( http://science.jrank.org/pages/8444/Beauty-Ugliness-Definitions-Beauty.html#ixzz3uPPKLjgq )

is a free play of imagination and understanding in a purposiveness without purpose or a finality without end.

Actually, what Freud calls sublimation can be better understood along the lines of Kantian beauty, which consist in a free play of imagination and understanding in a purposiveness without purpose or a finality without end.

is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

beauty, n.All

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