Saturday, February 07, 2004

Continuing in the same note let's talk about beauty. Beauty: the characteristic feature of things that arouse pleasure or delight, especially to the senses of a human observer. Thus, "beauty" is the most general term of
aesthetic appreciation. Whether judgments about beauty are objective or subjective has been a matter of serious philosophical dispute. To mention only two of many people who have written about philosophies of art and beauty are James Kirwan, and Hug Bredin