Is it possible to define what beautiful is

[ruby jonas]

Hi guys, I am working on my research essay “Is it possible to define what is the beautiful?” and I would love to hear your views on this topic. For my research I am reading the book ‘Speaking of Beauty’ by Denis Donoghue.  I am also using two pieces of prose that talks about beauty: ‘The joy of fat’ by Margaret Deirdre O’Hartigan and the chapter ‘Beauty’ from Andy Warhol’s book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.  Much appreciated. Stay safe and be well.

[benjamin haas]

So this didn’t get much love.

anybody read these pieces?

can’t we help our friend ruby out.

[benjamin haas]

this is one of those questions i think is not really answerable so, the goal is to pick something and defend it with the readings. so go with your gut.

i think there is beauty and i do think threre are some universal beauties, the sun would be perhaps the best example. Almost all species of plants and animals gain their life from the sun. think about how almost every childs drawing includes the big yellow cirecle (often with smiley face) and lines sticking out of it for rays (that in retrospect look a lot like corona virus) or how good it feels after being trapped indoors for the winter or for a virus and getting to let the sunshine on your skin. that feels liek a beautiful aesthetic experience i think.

I think the stars have also captivated our human sense of beauty for a very long time. or really the night sky in general. northern lights, the milky way, or even the moon. there is the story of the drunken chinese poet LiPo who tried to hug the moon and drowned, https://sites.google.com/a/ncps-k12.org/srpoetbenko2011/home/chapter-three (just as an exmple)

I think that the Warhol in your assignment points to a more mundae sense of beauty that is individual and idiosyncratic and perhaps is asking us to slow down. I think we can find anythign beautiful if we chose, think abotu my love of rats or the ozark hellbender (goolge images) its from where i am. but most people dont think these critters are very beautiful, so theuniversal beauty i talk about earlier may exist but differe from the idiosyncratic version that we carry around with us.
hows that for a start

[cleanna]

There really Is’nt a real way to define what beautiful is, In my opinion because beauty is what you feel like for example I could say something is amazing, but you might feel another other wise like its ugly,but like i said it what you feel or try looking at it another way from someone else’s eyes.

[ruby jonas]

Thank you for the input guys….still adding pieces to my final draft. Appreciate you all so much. Stay safe…see you all in tomorrow’s meeting

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