The Beautiful Ones

I. According to Aristophanes: What is love? Why do human beings fall in love? According to Aristophanes, love (eros) – the highest form of love that one human being can feel towards another – is the desire of dissected halves, one to another, for restoring the wholeness of the nature’s origin. I will explain what does Aristophanes mean by his metaphor and why do people fall in love. In his speech, Aristophanes tells the story about the origin of the nature of human beings. He tells that once, there

Looking over the vast expanses of the American landscape, staring up into a starry sky, or watching spring return and animals rear their young, one cannot help but see beauty in nature. Some people find beauty even in the smallest of creatures and things. The earth is full of wonder. At the same time, driving across certain places, where humans have scarred the landscape, ugliness appears. The marred landscapes in which humans have clear-cut a forest, obliterated a mountain, or dumped waste can destroy

song, Scars to Your Beautiful, she makes sure there’s a strong, powerful message that women and young girls, guys too, can relate to. I choose this song because it has a deep message. Scars to Your Beautiful lets young girls and women know that they don’t need to look like models to be considered beautiful. The theme of the song is self-acceptance. In the song, Cara is trying to let the audience know that they don’t have to conform to societies standards of beauty, they’re beautiful just as they are

The Beautiful in Kant's Third Critique and Aristotle's Poetics ABSTRACT: I argue that Kant's analysis of the experience of the beautiful in the third Critique entails an implicit or potential experience of the sublime, that is, the sublime as he himself describes it. Finding the sublime in the beautiful is what I call philosophical beauty. I then consider some aspects of Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in the Poetics, specifically his identification of the key elements of tragedy as those involving

sight.” Beauty has been studied and analyzed for years. As humans, we are attracted to beauty, but what makes something beautiful? There are many different types of art that is considered beauty, not only paintings and drawing but poetry, music and nature. Art is not always seen as beautiful; it can be quite ugly and vague. When art is considered ugly, it can still be beautiful. “The modern conception of art leads us to suppose that meaning must be grasped either in terms of the artist’s intentions

Beauty can be viewed in a variety of ways for many different people. Society has made a huge impact on the way people view and think of one another. Since the media has created a specific definition of beauty, people begin to see others in a different light. Those who are considered the “other” are those who the society and media have not deemed beautiful. Alice Walker describes in “Beauty: When the Other Dance is the Self” how her experience with her eye being noticeably damaged had caused her to

The Holocaust in Life is Beautiful and Schindler’s List After slavery the second most controversial damaging system of oppression to a targeted race is the tragic killing of Jews called the Holocaust .After World War 1 Germany’s economy was shattered due to the Treaty of Versailles where Germany was forced to pay for all the expenses and damages from the war. Chancellor of Germany and dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler believed that the extermination of Jews would lead to a prosperous Germany

two songs “Pretty hurts” by Beyoncé and “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera has its similarities and differences, along with different perspectives of the audiences. With different tones, moods, and purposes these songs have a huge impact on society for defining the word “Beauty.” In both songs they target two different audiences. One audience has difficult with insecurities (Pretty Hurts) while the other audience doesn’t believe they are beautiful (Beautiful). The purpose in both songs have the same

Beauty may be inherent in scarcity value, universality, and balance. In the age of starvation, a plump woman is regarded as a beautiful woman, and in the era of satiation, a slender woman is regarded as a beautiful woman. Also, I have forgotten where I have heard, but it is said that humans would scramble for mud if the earth were made of gold. While scarcity value changes with the times, things that are difficult to alter such as jewelry can be subject to beauty because of its universality. Also

spirit” This is how Merriam-Webster defines Beauty. It’s easy to define beauty it could either be finding something aesthetically pleasing or admirable , perhaps as in an person, place, or object even an idea could be beautiful.The idea of beauty is not one that everyone can agree on, there is no standard or unit to count it by. Beauty is subjective and it is often said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”- Proverb Some might associate beauty with it’s Classical Era concept where attachment and