Philosophy discussion

How do you define beauty?

When looking at other people, things or places, and even myself beauty is a feeling. Beauty doesn’t feel finite because circumstances can affect perception or acceptance. Some things that are traditionally beautiful don’t always feel that way, and some things that may be considered ugly, plain, or mundane feel beautiful.

I like George Santayana's definition of beauty as "objectified pleasure."

Immanuel Kant- the judgement of beauty is universal

You could take everyone here and raise them in a different culture or time period and I bet each one of us would come up with a different answer than we would now.

For married men, the correct answer is their wives.

Married women are not held to the same standard.

The hypocrisy suggests that "beauty" is just a word we use to affect other people.

"What makes buildings beautiful, and why beauty does matter":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9pg2...

J. wrote: "For married men, the correct answer is their wives....."

so you believe beauty is material?

Sadie wrote: "J. wrote: "For married men, the correct answer is their wives....."

so you believe beauty is material?"

No, my post clearly demonstrated that beauty is immaterial. What matters is not having to deal with THAT argument again. So, it's the pants that make your butt look fat and that supermodel is a troll compared to your radiant beauty.

What makes beauty immaterial?

English is not my mother tounge so please excuse my unadorned sentences.

I think we should define beauty just like how we define reality. Most people believe that there is something you can call as "reality" and it's subjective. Whilst some people think that it's a game of human mind and there is no such thing that you can see, touch or think of.

Just like reality, there is uncountable toughts about beauty and we can continously debate about whether they are right or wrong.

For me personally, beauty is in both everything and nothing. I can find beauty in a piece of dog fur floating in the wind while someone else thinks it's disgusting. And I can't argue with them. I can find someone beautiful to the bones while he/she thinks that they are the ugliest creature ever came to Earth. And whatever I do, I probably can't convince them otherwise untill they change their mind about what beauty is and what it's not.

Sadie wrote: "J. wrote: "For married men, the correct answer is their wives....."

so you believe beauty is material?"

You put forward that beauty is a word or concept only used to affect other people. Can you expound on that?