Tuesday, September 11, 2012

More on Recognizing beauty

After our brief discussion about the nature of beauty in last class, I still feel myself leaning towards the idea that beauty itself is a property of an object or experience (although it may be a property determined by its other non aesthetic properties). That would explain why often there is at least some consensus about whether a sunset or painting or song is beautiful; if beauty is a property anyone can recognize and is present in the object, then it would come as little surprise why many can come to same judgement. This would mean however that all people would recognize a present beauty in an object or experience, and given the fact we do have typically have at least one dissenter who disagrees about the beautiful, I have yet to understand why some people would and others would not call something beautiful. Just some thoughts I've been mulling over since last class but I would love to get some feedback if anyone has any comments or questions.

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