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what is beauty? how do we know if something is beautiful?
"everything has its beauty,
"the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. they must be felt with the heart."
a photo a day. pieces of life. in the form of photographs. let the beauty begin.
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but not everyone sees it."
-confucius
-helen keller
You know Immanuel Kant. Studied that same question. How do we know something is beautiful. What is beauty?
ReplyDelete"The judgment that something is beautiful is a claim that it possesses the 'form of finality' - that is, that it appears to have been designed with a purpose, even though it does not have any apparent practical function. The judgment that something is sublime is a judgment that it is beyond the limits of comprehension - that it is an object of fear. However, Kant makes clear that the object must not actually be threatening - it merely must be recognized as deserving of fear."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Judgement
In the Critique of Judgment he discusses this. In case you are free this weekend you could read up on it. :) or you could just ignore this and call me a dork.
Beat you to the punch there didn't I. :)
wow...i'm gonna go with the dork option. ;)
ReplyDeletei was seriously going to post a picture extremely similar to this one. maybe i'll wait a couple weeks now ha ha.
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