Re: What is beauty?

[Thu-Huong Tran <tran@robles.callutheran.edu>]

Hi Karl  :-)
Comments for below???
Btw, did you like the watermelon? It's so sweet, huh?

thanks
Huong


At 02:40 PM 7/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi ba'c Die^~m, ba'c Tua^'n,
>
>>  DQ: The^' nhu*~ng o^ng Hay ba` Homosexual thi` sao ? DDa~ co' va`i 
>> nghie^n cu*'u ve^` va^'n dde^` na`y nhu*ng to^i kho^ng theo do~i, kho^ng 
>> bie^'t nay dda~ dde^'n dda^u ? Ba'c cho 1 ba`i ve^` Gene ddi!  to^i 
>> ra^'t thi'ch hu*o*'ng na`y! 
>
>Homosexuality is not an average but an exception. It is an exeption
>partly because it's not fit for the biological reproduction. Homosexuality
>is a handicap in the evolutionary process.
>
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>> 
>> >        Well, this is a paradox: while beauty is THE average, but 
>> average is
>> >not necessarily THE beauty, may be A beauty. An average flower is not 
>> the
>> >best flower, according to the theory of measurement. However, all the 
>> best
>> >flowers are resulted from the average. Complicated huh? Let us see any 
>> other
>> >comments.
>
>I'd like to put the question another way. Non-average MAY be beautiful. Is
>average ALWAYS beautiful? If yes, I must believe in our good Darwin.
>
>
>> 
>>  DQ: Co' pha?i xa^'u dde.p la` do o'c ngu*o*`i ta nha^.n thu*'c ra 
>> kho^ng ? Thi' du.: co' ngu*o*`i nhi`n thi` tha^'t dde.p nhu*ng ngu*o*`i 
>> kha'c thi` tha^'y thu*o*`ng hoa(.c du*?ng du*ng . Theo ba'c vie^.c 
>> information processing in brain ngu*o*`i ta dda~ ro~ chu*a a. ?
>> 
>
>Your question have caused headache for the philosophers since Adam and
>Eva's time. Ontologists claim that there is the only beauty which exists
>per se, independently from your tast, your idea or what ever. Others say
>that beauty is relative, it depends on that or this. Positivists do not
>know what THE beauty is. Maybe they say: It depends on your definition.
>
>As a positivist, I first define my object that it is the perception of
>beauty and not the beauty in ontological terms.
>
>Cheers,
>La^m.
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