15/03/2021
BEAUTY:-
Beauty is a mysterious concept and yet you know it when it greets you with its prettiness.
But is beauty subjective or objective?
First of all, we act like it's objective like just telling someone that they are beautiful.
But is it objective though?
According to Plato's theory of forms , there exists a hypothetical world which contains the perfect form of everything thus giving an universal absolute definition to everything.
So , in this hypothetical world there exists a perfect form of beauty-The true beauty.
And all the beautiful things in this world would be just imperfect replicas of this "True beauty". So, humanity,as a whole can recognize beauty when Therefore , beauty must be objective according to Plato.
But David Hume on the other hand says that "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty." So, beauty is subjective according to Hume.
To believe in total subjectivity in regards to beauty one must forget about the social habits of human mind .
I feel beauty is primarily subjective but at times is objective.
If I find someone beautiful , it doesn't mean that everyone else must.
But I feel that the beauty a sunset or sunrise or beautiful clear blue sky possesses , is objective.
But we tend to use the term beauty in an objective manner alot , and in the wrong places. For example: Most of the instagram models perpetuate this false sense of beauty which is functioning to give money to a selected group of individuals. Which is supposed to make your life grey and dull by comparison.
