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11 QUESTION AND THEIR ANSWER ABOUT BEAUTY I HOPE U WILL UNDERSTAND IN A BETTER WAY WHAT IS BEAUTY.1.In your own opinion, is aesthetics a kind of judgment, or a kind of standard, or anything else? The word "aesthetics", like "chemistry", "metaphysics", or "cognitive science", refers to an area of study. So aesthetics itself is not a judgment or a standard. Rather, it is a study of art and the evaluative standards that we employ in making judgments about art and artistic values. 2.What is beauty and what is ugliness? How do we judge what is beauty and what is ugliness? The concept of beauty and related concepts are difficult if not impossible to define. I suppose they have some connections with other concepts. For example, all else being equal, if something is beautiful in a certain respect, we tend to enjoy the apprehension or perception of that aspect of beauty. This is an area I haven't really thought much about. I might venture two guesses though. First, a philosophical account of beauty and ugliness (if it is possible to have such an account) should ultimately explain them in terms of the effects and emotions beautiful and ugly things elicit in us. So these qualities are different from for example electricity. We don't define or explain electricity in terms of what electricity does to us. Second, aesthetic values are very different from moral values. I think the case for aesthetic relativism is a lot stronger than the case of moral relativism. Judgments about beauty and ugliness are notoriously culture-bound. Bell bottom pants were all the rage during my parents' time. They look rather silly to me but now they are making a come back. Yet there can still be some universal general principles at work in our brain that affect our aesthetics judgment. Many studies have suggested that symmetry plays an important role in determining whether someone is beautiful. Young children tends to like music with strong and clear rhythm and beat. Of course, these generalizations might have all sorts of exceptions, and can express in behavior in all kinds of ways depending on the influence of culture and the environment. After all, many people think that Marilyn Monroe would be less beautiful if she were to have a symmetric face without her mole (or to have two for that matter). 3.What is your interpretation of beauty and ugliness? Are they the concept that you always bear in mind? I like beautiful babies, beautiful music, and beautiful scenery. To a lesser extent, I also like beautifully-written philosophy papers and books. But it is the ugliness of moral character that causes me the most anguish, whether that ugliness is within myself or someone else. Life would be rather bleak without the other beautiful things. 4.Is beauty or ugliness a concept or intuition? They are qualities or properties of objects, states of affairs, or persons. We can have concepts of them, have intuitions about them, but they are neither concepts nor intuitions. 5.Some people think that beauty refers to something good while ugliness refers to something bad. What is your opinion about it? Many beautiful things, including people, are downright nasty, and many ugly things are quite good in one way or another. We need to be more specific as to which aspect of beauty it is we are talking about, and what kind of good or evil is at issue. 6.Are beauty and good matters of opinion only? Or have they objective validity? As I said, I haven't thought about this very carefully. But I would bet on moral but not aesthetic objectivity. If aliens prefer white noise to Mozart because their brains work differently, I would not think that they are wrong in their aesthetic judgment. But if they like torturing innocent people for fun, I believe they are morally wrong whatever their moral beliefs are, if they have any. Having said that, I don't think aesthetic judgments are completely arbitrary. One might be committed to conflicting aesthetic standards and there is a sense in which one's judgments might be "improved" through identifying one's most basic commitments. 7.Do Logic and Critical thinking include the concept of goodness or worse? One point that I make in my critical thinking class is that concepts such as goodness or badness are incomplete concepts. It is not clear what is meant when we say that X is good unless the context makes it clear what kind of goodness we are talking about. A mop, for example, is good for cleaning the floor but not so good for cleaning your teeth. 8.Logic and critical thinking seems to be opposite with art. Do you agree? If so, why do you think so? If not, how do these three elements relate? To think that they are necessarily opposed is an unfortunate misconception. A well-written philosophical essay can be aesthetically pleasing, though this is all too rare to be sure. There is also no reason why someone who is good at logic and critical thinking cannot have artistic talent of some kind. Many philosophers and scientists are good musicians or artists. Locally, Dr. Lee Tien Ming at the Chinese University is famous both as a philosopher and a poet. It is true that many famous artists are real nuts, but perhaps it is only because we tend to remember the nutty ones more fondly. In any case, art sometimes serve the role of social critique, and here some amount of critical thinking is helpful. 9.Would you consider there is beauty inside logic? Why? I would not say that there is beauty "inside" logic. But some proofs in logic are beautiful, e.g. Godel's incompleteness proofs. Why? You can read the proof yourself. 10.Is there any relation between aesthetics, individual and community? If so, what is the relationship? I think aesthetic values are relative to classes of cognitive makeup, and not to individuals or communities. 11.How important you think beauty is? Beauty provides the refuge from futility where we contemplate the meaning of it all. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Allah is no doubt perfect...(laa shareek)but every ferfection(other than Allah) is not beautiful...In my opinion the beauty is the thing we run after but can not achieveit seems the most beautifull and attractive thing which can not be achieved wid ease...And Offcourse!!! Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholders...that is the only fact...because sometimes an extremly nice thing is not attractive to some people but the very same thing is really beautiful to the others...
well according to me beauti is attraction anything attracts towards itself its mean that is beauti............ but for the person about which attraction is towards him/her