Beauty
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[Rayonnant rose window in Notre Dame de Paris. In Gothic architecture, light was considered the most beautiful revelation of God.](By Krzysztof Mizera - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link)
Beauty - aesthetic (non-utilitarian, impractical) category, denoting perfection, a harmonious combination of aspects of the object, in which the latter causes the esthetic pleasure of the observer.
I would like to understand what is beauty, and following from the definition that I found in Wikipedia, what is perfection and harmonic combination. If with an aesthetic pleasure almost everything is clear, pleasure can be determined without outside help. But an aesthetics is something invented by a person and therefore I think it can not accurately characterize our object. That a person does not define by means of his fabrication is an entire particular case and personal perception based on the training received earlier. There is such an artificial word, that's just the case, all man's creations are artificial, and maybe, and most likely they are just repeating the world around us.
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[The night sky in the Atacama Desert. The concept of noctcaelador describes an emotional attachment to, or adoration of, the night sky](By ESO/Y. Beletsky - http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1119a/, CC BY 4.0, Link)
Let us dwell on the pleasure. Beauty should cause us at least pleasure and brings pleasure. Beauty should attract our attention and desire to possess it. By the way, ugliness is not less, and perhaps more attract our attention. But the question is that each person can like different objects and their properties. It turns out that if everyone has their own beauty, what is beautiful for some is probably not beautiful for others. Of course, you can still remember such a definition as perfection. But who has determined what is perfection. Most likely the beauty should be very close or be a nature. Everything that is created on our land is all beautiful. Life is beauty. Everything that is connected with life and is beautiful. Because life is perfection. Because everything that surrounds us can not be not beautiful. We grew up on this, and we do not know the other. Beauty can be called all that shaped us as a person, our perception and our learning in the period of our development. Because, by and large, everything beautiful that we meet on the path of our life has echoes associated with childhood ... It was at that time, laid down the criteria for our idea of beauty, as such. Although all this may not be beautiful.
I would not be categorical in such terms. You can call a person beautiful and a house. But in fact it has nothing to do with beautiful. And as it was said in the definition, it makes us enjoy and enjoy. But we can receive such sensations from other objects, for example, from eating. Is not food perfect.
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[The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli. The goddess Venus is the classical personification of beauty.](By Sandro Botticelli - Adjusted levels from File:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project.jpg, originally from Google Art Project. Compression Photoshop level 9., Public Domain, Link)
As for the social concept of beauty, in this case it is determined by a small number of people and later imposed on everyone else. This is very noticeable in the fashion in clothing. Beautifully possible, but after a year there is no more? So it happened, why such impermanence ... Beauty should be eternal, for that it is perfection ...
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