Perplexicon » eye of the beholder http://www.perplexicon.net Contrary to what you might think, a blog about what's contrary to what you might think. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A note on beauty http://www.perplexicon.net/2008/09/a-note-on-beauty/ http://www.perplexicon.net/2008/09/a-note-on-beauty/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:12:57 +0000 David Michael http://mrcontrarian.wordpress.com/?p=76 If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, how can we even speak of beauty? It must be, at least in part, an objective phenomenon: that is to say, we need an objective understanding of subjectivity. If I find a sunset beautiful, but my friend doesn’t, how can she actually know what I’m talking about if I say “that sunset is beautiful”? She clearly does not have the same qualitative appreciation of it, so that sentence is essentially gibberish to her. The only reason she understands it is that she was at some point taught what the word means. But how is that possible if it is in the eye of the beholder?

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