What is beauty? Help on definition essay...?

Question

I'm writting a college essay about what is beauty, and im gonna focus on, body figure and how it shouldnt matter to young girls. Any comments or ideas on what you think beauty is, phrases from song or literary work, or anything that can help me.

THANKS A LOT IN ADVANCED!!!

Answer 1

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,we all find different things beautiful and we don't all have the same tastes,what is beautiful to you.

Answer 2

Understanding the nature and meaning of beauty is one of the key themes in the philosophical discipline known as aesthetics; commonly perceived as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.

Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction.

An "ideal beauty" is a person who is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture.

The subjective experience of "beauty" often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a common phrase that expresses this concept.

In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one's own existence. An "object of beauty" is anything that reveals or resonates with personal meaning.

The composer and critic Robert Schumann distinguished between two kinds of beauty, natural and poetic. The former is found in the contemplation of nature, whereas the latter lies in man's conscious, creative intervention into nature. Schumann indicated that in music, or other art, both kinds of beauty appear, but natural beauty is merely sensual delight. Poetic beauty begins where the natural beauty leaves off.

The philosopher Immanuel Kant, whose aesthetic theory has been influential, noted that beauty seems to possess both subjective and objective qualities.Arguing for the subjective nature of beauty, he wrote, "The judgment of taste, therefore, is not a cognitive judgment, and so not logical, but is aesthetic – which means that it is one whose determining ground cannot be other than subjective." Kant also noted, however, that when someone calls an object beautiful, "he judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things."

A common idea suggests that beauty exists in the appearance of things and people that are good. A good apple will be perceived as more beautiful than a bruised one. Also, most people judge physically attractive human beings to be good, both physically and on a deeper level. Specifically, they are believed to possess a variety of positive traits and personality characteristics.

Further, people's skills can develop and change their sense of beauty. Carpenters may view an out-of-true building as ugly, and many master carpenters can see out-of-true angles as small as half a degree. Many musicians can likewise hear as dissonant a tone that's high or low by as little as two percent of the distance to the next note.Most people have similar aesthetics about the work or hobbies they have mastered.