Beauty, the Glossary
Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive.[1]
Table of Contents
155 relations: Abstract and concrete, Adornment, Aesthetics, African Americans, Age of Enlightenment, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Alexander Nehamas, Americans, Ancient Greek architecture, Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient philosophy, Anorexia nervosa, Antinomy, Aristippus, Aristotle, Asian people, Augustine of Hippo, Averageness, Barbie, Beauty pageant, Black is beautiful, Black women, Body modification, Body proportions, Category mistake, Cathedral, Charisma, Charles Darwin, Chartres Cathedral, Chinese people, Chinese philosophy, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Cicero, Cinema of the United States, Classical antiquity, Classical Greece, Classicism, CNN, Confucius, Cornel West, Cosmetics, David Hume, De Natura Deorum, Diotima of Mantinea, Divinity, East Asian people, Edmund Burke, Elaine Scarry, Elegance, Eroticism, ... Expand index (105 more) »
- Aesthetic beauty
- Physical attractiveness
Abstract and concrete
In metaphysics, the distinction between abstract and concrete refers to a divide between two types of entities. Beauty and abstract and concrete are metaphysical properties.
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Adornment
An adornment is generally an accessory or ornament worn to enhance the beauty or status of the wearer. Beauty and adornment are fashion.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (17 July 1714 – 27 MayJan Lekschas, 1762) was a German philosopher.
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Alexander Nehamas
Alexander Nehamas (Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 22 March 1946) is a Greek-born American philosopher.
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Americans
Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States.
Ancient Greek architecture
Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
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Ancient Greek philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC.
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Ancient philosophy
This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history.
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Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN), often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by food restriction, body image disturbance, fear of gaining weight, and an overpowering desire to be thin.
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Antinomy
Antinomy (Greek ἀντί, antí, "against, in opposition to", and νόμος, nómos, "law") refers to a real or apparent mutual incompatibility of two notions.
Aristippus
Aristippus of Cyrene (Ἀρίστιππος ὁ Κυρηναῖος; c. 435 – c. 356 BCE) was a hedonistic Greek philosopher and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy.
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Asian people
Asian people (or Asians, sometimes referred to as Asiatic peopleUnited States National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings. 2004. November 17, 2006.: Asian Continental Ancestry Group is also used for categorical purposes.) are the people of the continent of Asia.
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
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Averageness
In physical attractiveness studies, averageness describes the physical beauty that results from averaging the facial features of people of the same gender and approximately the same age. Beauty and averageness are physical attractiveness.
Barbie
Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel and introduced on March 9, 1959.
Beauty pageant
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants.
Black is beautiful
Black is beautiful is a cultural movement that was started in the United States in the 1960s by African Americans.
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Black women
Black women are of sub-Saharan African, Indigenous Australian, and Melanesian descent.
Body modification
Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance. Beauty and body modification are fashion.
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Body proportions
Body proportions is the study of artistic anatomy, which attempts to explore the relation of the elements of the human body to each other and to the whole.
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Category mistake
A category mistake (or category error, categorical mistake, or mistake of category), is a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category, or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.
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Cathedral
A cathedral is a church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.
Charisma
Charisma is a personal quality of presence or charm that other people find psychologically compelling.
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Catholic Cathedral in Chartres, France, about southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres.
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Chinese people
The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.
Chinese philosophy
Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, during a period known as the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) is a digital library that provides free electronic copies of Christian scripture and literature texts.
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Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.
Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Classical Greece
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." (Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece, Yale University Press, 1996, p.
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Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Confucius
Confucius (孔子; pinyin), born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education.
Cornel West
Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, politician, social critic, public intellectual, and occasional actor.
Cosmetics
Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.
David Hume
David Hume (born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism.
De Natura Deorum
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) is a philosophical dialogue by Roman Academic Skeptic philosopher Cicero written in 45 BC.
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Diotima of Mantinea
Diotima of Mantinea (Διοτίμα; Diotīma) is the name or pseudonym of an ancient Greek character in Plato's dialogue Symposium, possibly an actual historical figure, indicated as having lived circa 440 B.C. Her ideas and doctrine of Eros as reported by the character of Socrates in the dialogue are the origin of the concept today known as Platonic love.
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Divinity
Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.
East Asian people
East Asian people (also East Asians or Northeast Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain.
Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry (born June 30, 1946) is an American essayist and professor of English and American Literature and Language.
Elegance
Elegance is beauty that shows unusual effectiveness and simplicity. Beauty and Elegance are concepts in aesthetics.
Eroticism
Eroticism is a quality that causes sexual feelings, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire, sensuality, and romantic love. Beauty and Eroticism are concepts in aesthetics.
Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) refers to viewing the West as the center of world events or superior to all other cultures.
Euthyphro dilemma
The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" (10a) Although it was originally applied to the ancient Greek pantheon, the dilemma has implications for modern monotheistic religions.
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Eva Ritvo
Eva Ritvo is an American television and radio personality, author, and psychiatrist noted for her work on women's empowerment issues and self-help books.
Existence
Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing. Beauty and Existence are metaphysical properties.
Experimental aesthetics
Experimental aesthetics is a field of psychology founded by Gustav Theodor Fechner in the 19th century.
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Female body shape
Female body shape or female figure is the cumulative product of a woman's bone structure along with the distribution of muscle and fat on the body. Beauty and female body shape are physical attractiveness.
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Feminine beauty ideal
The feminine beauty ideal is a specific set of beauty standards regarding traits that are ingrained in women throughout their lives and from a young age to increase their perceived physical attractiveness.
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Form of the Good
The Form of the Good, or more literally translated "the Idea of the Good" (ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα), is a concept in the philosophy of Plato.
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Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton (16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was a British polymath and the originator of the behavioral genetics movement during the Victorian era.
Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
Francis Hutcheson LLD (8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746) was an Irish philosopher born in Ulster to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became known as one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.
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G. E. Moore
George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy.
George Santayana
George Santayana (b. Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952), was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
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Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (also,; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect, who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of all art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is now regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.
Glamour (presentation)
In the field of cultural studies, glamour, or glamor, is the impression of attraction or fascination that a particularly luxurious or elegant appearance creates, an impression which intensifies reality. Beauty and glamour (presentation) are fashion.
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God
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.
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Golden ratio
In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.
Gothic art
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture.
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
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Guy Sircello
Guy Sircello (1936–1992) was an American philosopher best known for his analytic approach to philosophical aesthetics.
Hedonism
Hedonism refers to the prioritization of pleasure in one's lifestyle, actions, or thoughts.
Helen of Troy
Helen (Helénē), also known as Helen of Troy, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, and in Latin as Helena, was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.
Heraclitus
Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire.
High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300.
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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Human physical appearance
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. Beauty and human physical appearance are fashion.
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Humanism
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.
Integrity
Integrity is the quality of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.
Intellect
In the study of the human mind, intellect is the ability of the human mind to reach correct conclusions about what is true and what is false in reality; and includes capacities such as reasoning, conceiving, judging, and relating.
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
Intrinsic value (ethics)
In ethics, intrinsic value is a property of anything that is valuable on its own.
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Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
Koine Greek
Koine Greek (Koine the common dialect), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire.
Koinophilia
Koinophilia is an evolutionary hypothesis proposing that during sexual selection, animals preferentially seek mates with a minimum of unusual or mutant features, including functionality, appearance and behavior.
Late Middle Ages
The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
This is a list of Catholic philosophers and theologians whose Catholicism is important to their works.
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Lookism
Lookism is prejudice or discrimination toward people who are considered to be physically unattractive, and bases perception of all other qualities, such as intelligence and abilities, on a person’s physical appearance.
Masculine beauty ideal
The masculine beauty ideal is a set of cultural beauty standards for men which change based on the historical era and the geographic region. Beauty and masculine beauty ideal are physical attractiveness.
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Mathematical beauty
Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics. Beauty and Mathematical beauty are aesthetic beauty.
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
Mencius
Mencius was a Chinese Confucian philosopher, often described as the Second Sage (亞聖) to reflect his traditional esteem relative to Confucius himself.
Metaphysics (Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics"; Latin: Metaphysica) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops the doctrine that he calls First Philosophy.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Nature (philosophy)
Nature has two inter-related meanings in philosophy and natural philosophy.
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Necessity and sufficiency
In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. Beauty and necessity and sufficiency are metaphysical properties.
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Neuroesthetics
Neuroesthetics (or neuroaesthetics) is a relatively recent sub-discipline of applied aesthetics.
Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris (meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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On Ugliness
On Ugliness (Storia della bruttezza) is a 2007 essay edited by Italian author Umberto Eco, originally published by Bompiani in 2007.
Orbitofrontal cortex
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a prefrontal cortex region in the frontal lobes of the brain which is involved in the cognitive process of decision-making.
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Parmenides (dialogue)
Parmenides (Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato.
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Personality type
In psychology, personality type refers to the psychological classification of individuals.
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Phaedrus (dialogue)
The Phaedrus (Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues.
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Philosophical realism
Philosophical realism – usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters – is the view that a certain kind of thing (ranging widely from abstract objects like numbers to moral statements to the physical world itself) has mind-independent existence, i.e.
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Physical attractiveness
Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful.
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Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
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Pleasure
Pleasure is experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something.
Politeness
Politeness is the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others and to put them at ease.
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as Early Greek Philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates.
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Primary–secondary quality distinction
The primary–secondary quality distinction is a conceptual distinction in epistemology and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality.
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Processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure
The processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure is a theory in psychological aesthetics on how people experience beauty.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on and around the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans.
Ratio
In mathematics, a ratio shows how many times one number contains another.
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RealAudio
RealAudio, also spelled Real Audio, is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995.
Ren (philosophy)
(meaning "co-humanity" or "humaneness") is a Confucian virtue meaning the good quality of a virtuous human when reaching for higher ideals or when being altruistic.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, (27 February 194412 January 2020) was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.
Scientific law
Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena.
Sexual selection
Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).
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Socrates
Socrates (– 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
Subjectivism
Subjectivism is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience", instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth.
Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics. Beauty and subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) are metaphysical properties.
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Sublime (philosophy)
In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. Beauty and sublime (philosophy) are concepts in aesthetics.
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Summa Theologica
The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica, often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church.
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Supervenience
In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. Beauty and supervenience are metaphysical properties.
Symposium (Plato)
The Symposium (sympósi̯on|translit.
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Teleological argument
The teleological argument (from) also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument, is an argument for the existence of God or, more generally, that complex functionality in the natural world, which looks designed, is evidence of an intelligent creator.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.
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The Oxonian Review
The Oxonian Review is a literary magazine produced by postgraduate students at the University of Oxford.
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Theory of forms
In philosophy and specifically metaphysics, the theory of Forms, theory of Ideas, Platonic idealism, or Platonic realism is a theory widely credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato.
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas (Aquino; – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.
Transcendentals
The transcendentals (transcendentalia, from transcendere "to exceed") are "properties of being", nowadays commonly considered to be truth, unity (oneness), beauty, and goodness. Beauty and transcendentals are metaphysical properties.
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Truth
Truth or verity is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. Beauty and Truth are metaphysical properties.
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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
Unattractiveness
Unattractiveness or ugliness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically unfavorable.
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Unity in variety
In aesthetics, "unity in variety" (sometimes "unity in diversity") is a principle declaring that in art beauty can come from the variety of diverse components grouped together thus creating a fused impression as a whole. Beauty and Unity in variety are aesthetic beauty and concepts in aesthetics.
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Value (ethics and social sciences)
In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.
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Waist–hip ratio
The waist–hip ratio or waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is the dimensionless ratio of the circumference of the waist to that of the hips. Beauty and waist–hip ratio are physical attractiveness.
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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.
Western media is the mass media of the Western world.
Western philosophy
Western philosophy, the part of philosophical thought and work of the Western world.
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White Americans
White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.
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Winged Victory of Samothrace
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea.
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Work of art
A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an artistic creation of aesthetic value. Beauty and work of art are concepts in aesthetics.
Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (Ξενοφῶν||; probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian, born in Athens.
Zengzi
Zeng Shen (505–435 BC), better known as Zengzi (Master Zeng), courtesy name Ziyu, was a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius.
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea is a non-fiction book by American author and journalist Charles Seife.
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Zhu Xi
Zhu Xi (October 18, 1130April 23, 1200), formerly romanized Chu Hsi, was a Chinese calligrapher, historian, philosopher, poet, and politician of the Southern Song dynasty.
See also
Aesthetic beauty
- Aesthetic absolutism
- Aesthetic relativism
- Artistic canons of body proportions
- Beautification
- Beauty
- Golden hour (photography)
- Line of beauty
- Mathematical beauty
- Noctcaelador
- Unity in variety
Physical attractiveness
- Averageness
- Beauty
- Body odour and sexual attraction
- Body shape
- Circassian beauty
- Cuteness
- Dimple
- Dimples of Venus
- English rose (epithet)
- FHM's 100 Sexiest Women (UK)
- Facial symmetry
- Female body shape
- Gynoid fat distribution
- Interracial marriage
- Korean beauty standards
- Masculine beauty ideal
- Physical attractiveness
- Race and sexuality
- Sex kitten
- Sexual attraction
- Sexual capital
- Singles event
- Skin lightening in the Middle East
- Tall, dark and handsome
- The Beauty Myth
- Twink (gay slang)
- Waist–hip ratio
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty
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