The Beautiful Ones

the meaning of the beautiful and the sublime and how they contrast from each other by employing nature through his analysis. In book one of Kant’s Critique of Judgement titled Analytic of the Beautiful, he argues that the judgement of beauty is disinterested and that it is both subjective and universal simultaneously. On the other hand, in the Analytic of the Sublime, Kant analyzes the sublime as an idea that cannot fully be grasped by the mind. While the concept of the beautiful and the sublime are

The story of Aios, the goddess of painting and color, and the sunset passed down through generations. This is the story of how beautiful sunsets we see every day were created to please a trickster who had captured the powerful painter one fateful day. The story begins in a garden. A small, simple garden right outside the mountain of Olympus. This was a place that Aios felt calm to think about the horrors and the struggles in life. The young goddess had wandered over to a young man who was sitting

amongst the group of men, one of those theories being the idea of beauty. To truly understand what Plato thinks about beauty, you have to understand his idea of forms, and the Form of Beauty. He describes this as an “everlasting loveliness which never comes nor goes, which neither flowers nor fades”. The essence to understanding this form, is that we can realize all beautiful things share the Form of Beauty. But only in their involvement with this form that they become beautiful. It is an unchanging,

Beautiful Kabul Kabul is a beautiful poem, written by Saib-e-Tabrizi, that is an ode addressing the city of Kabul. Throughout the poem Tabrizi describes the beauty of Kabul. The theme is Kabul is beautiful. The literary devices in this poem are similes, personification,and allusion. These three literary devices portray theme and describe how beautiful Kabul really is. The first literary device that expresses the theme that Kabul is beautiful is personification. Throughout the poem Kabul is addressed

attention to focusing on aesthetics and what truly makes a piece of art beautiful and pleasing to the eye. Up until around the 1780s Immanuel Kant did not particularly worry or concern himself with aesthetics and how that judges an object or piece of art. It was only in the 1780s that Kant started to take an interest in the aesthetic value of objects and pieces of art. According to Kant, for an object to truly be called beautiful there are four “Moments” in which that particular object must go through

Don't look at me is the first line of Christina Aguilera's song "Beautiful." This instant whisper from the voice of Aguilera creates an ashamed vibe for the song. It is spoken quietly and without any musical instrumentation. As the music softly and brilliantly builds up to the first verse listener's already have a misinterpretation of the lyrics. The audience presumes that the song will be about depression or shame and disgrace because one would associate not wanting people to look at you with shame

“Although imitation is one of the great instruments used by providence in bringing our nature towards its perfection, yet if men gave themselves up to imitation entirely, and each followed the other, and so on in an eternal circle, it is easy to see that there never could be improvement amongst them.” Edmund Burke, Irishman born in Dublin in 1729 is best known for his political endeavors as a proponent of the American colonies during the American Revolution, for his opposition to the French Revolution

age. Plotinus begins by asking his audience to consider what beauty is. He offers the example of some things being beautiful by “the nature of the objects themselves,” and something instead are beautiful “by participation,” such as being virtuous (Plotinus 1). He prompts the audience to ask themselves whether beauty is sensory- since one may see or hear things they consider beautiful, what catches the attention of someone ultimately leading to a feeling of attraction to certain things (Plotinus 1)

dictionary definition states, beauty is “the quality in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind [or] a pretty person,” (Merriam-Webster). Although it comes from the dictionary, beauty should not be limited to this one specific definition. There’s an infinite number of ways to define the word “beauty”. To begin with, the most common and familiar definition of beauty is simply looking at the external appearance of someone or something. Unfortunately, people tend to

think there is such thing as real beauty or is it just an idea created by society? We believe that beauty is one way and that if you do not follow or fit the criteria, then you are not beautiful because you don’t meet the standards. Media gives us their view of what beauty is and how to define it. The media influences what beauty is but then the media’s view of beauty is not the only one. What we seem to think beauty is, is something that we want to have or want to be like because we think that is