What is beauty?

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Can it be internal, external, or both?

Is it subjective, objective, or can it be both?

What exactly is beauty? It simply perplexes me. Is it something that makes you amazed (in a good way) like looking at a humongous water fall? Is it attraction to the person of another sex? Is it a cleaness of the heart? Is it all of these?
 
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Here is my brief view: Reality exists in four ways: objectively, subjectively, rationally, and transcendentally. Beauty is experienced transcendentally through the awakening of the soul. Often, but not always, the soul must be trained to experience it.
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Go ask Tom Aquinas. He’s your man.

It is an attribute of God, for one thing.

When the creator’s creation is either not deformed or nearly flawless to the human senses, that’s it. But the creation pales in comparison to the creator. At least that is what the angels tell me.
 
Beauty is subjective.

It is in the eye of the beast.

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To God, all His creation is beautiful, minus the demons and damned souls who have ruined themselves, although God still loves them and they did start out beautiful.

According to our senses, we view beauty differently and only see some people and some things as beautiful.
 
Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleAsure or stisfaction. Beauty is as part of asthetics, sociology, psychoogy, and culture. An “ideal beauty” is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely atributed to beauty in a particular cultures, for perfection.

The experience of “beauty” involves an interpretation of som person as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of atraction and emotional well-being. Because this can be a subjective experience, it is often said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” There’s evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily determined, that things, aspects of ppl and landscapes considered beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human’s genes. Beauty is the forerunner to the creation and sustainment of life.
 
Beauty reflects something of the perfection or artistry of the creator. But for the creation in this here and now, the forms of this world are passing away, i.e. beautiful persons as well as beautiful flowers…as far as their aesthetic attributes go, they are quite fleeting. Beauty always points back to God in some way, which is immutable Beauty.
 
SuperDarkMan12 said:
Can it be internal, external, or both?

Is it subjective, objective, or can it be both?

What exactly is beauty? It simply perplexes me. Is it something that makes you amazed (in a good way) like looking at a humongous water fall? Is it attraction to the person of another sex? Is it a cleaness of the heart? Is it all of these?
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When you understand something a beautiful, you are the subject understanding the nature of an object. You perceive it with your senses (whether an actual object, or an object in your imagination (not “made up imaginings”, but reasoned visualizations of something you know is real, such as God). And you experience pleasure (sensitive appetite) or joy (rational appetite) in the operation of this perception - you contentedly keep perceiving this object, happy to have the perception.

When you perceive something (something other than you or perceive yourself), your first movement is to reason through or about it and know “what is it” - that is “truth”.
Your second movement is to reason about “Is it suitable to be united with, is it desirable to me” - that is the “good”.
If you understand it is suited to you, desirable, you are moved toward it, toward union with it. When you have attained the presence of this true and good object that you know about, you “enjoy it”, contemplating its truth and goodness, regarding them as “beauty”.

Beauty is known or understood as you “rest in the presence” of what you sought.
 
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can it be internal, external, or both?

Is it subjective, objective, or can it be both?

What exactly in beauty? It simply perplexes me. Is it something that makes you amazed (in a good way) like looking at a humongous water fall? Is it attraction to the person of another sex? Is it a cleaness of the heart? Is it all of these?
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The objective and subjective are both involved.

A person may have some impediment in appreciating say the Grand Canyon…or Niagra Falls…but that is not because they are not beautiful.

The very fact that such are visited by so many persons day in and day out – all wowed by the beauty is not due to the beauty of such places being a rather universal experience?

Same goes for so many popular “beautiful places” in the world.

There is quite an objective reality involved.
 
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Beauty reflects something of the perfection or artistry of the creator. But for the creation in this here and now, the forms of this world are passing away, i.e. beautiful persons as well as beautiful flowers…as far as their aesthetic attributes go, they are quite fleeting. Beauty always points back to God in some way, which is immutable Beauty.
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Yes, well said.

Beauty has its origin in God.

Without God, there is no beauty.
 
There are laws to beauty. The Greeks called the cosmos, i.e. the natural world, “ordered beauty”. Beauty is throughout nature. Nature exhibits these three things that have beauty, Proportion, Harmony, Symmetry. Another part of Proportion is the Divine proportion 1.6. It is the proportion between the forearm and the upper arm. The Divine proportion gives beauty to the things it is built into. The Parthenon is built around the Divine proportion.

What makes a woman ugly maybe that her nose is too big. A beautiful woman would have a proportionate nose. If a woman only had one arm and one leg, she wouldn’t be beautiful. Beautiful also encompasses Perfection, it has come to its fullest natural end.

Beauty is objective in a lot of ways. Then, on top of the objective is man’s subjective opinion, what an individual desires.
 
There’s evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily determined, that things, aspects of ppl and landscapes considered beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human’s genes. Beauty is the forerunner to the creation and sustainment of life.

Since God is eternal life, He is the ultimate beauty. The Holy Spirit is The Lord, the giver of life, so I am concluding that He thinks we are beautiful. In today’s culture Much of the focus about bringing life into the world is on the woman. However, we often overlook how incredible it is that a man will produce sperm purely because of beauty vs a woman who is born with a fixed number of eggs.
 
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