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The Nature of Beauty
- The nature of beauty is a riddle in philosophy, with great figures engaging in trying to understand it, including Plato and Aristotle.
- An aesthetic attitude makes the engagement and appreciation of beauty using our senses, like taste, smell, vision or touch.
- Beauty can also be accessed in other ways like intellectually and through imagination.
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Human beings, it seems, are genetically predisposed to desire and appreciate beauty.
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- Philosophers have long tried to understand beauty, the enigmatic, elusive phenomenon that has been a mainstay of poets for centuries.
- Modern science cannot even tell us what beauty is, though they are studying where it exists and where it does not....
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We don't expect other people to be perfect but appreciate when people show their vulnerabilities and admit errors. Yet, we're afraid to expose our own shortcomings.
This is known as "the beautiful mess effect." We see other people's honesty about their flaws as pos...
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