People, what is the word "absolute beauty" mean to you?
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Kim Jong Illin wrote...
[size=10]I think this is a valid question. Obviously it's impossible for the entire population of the Earth to hold some single thing as beautiful, but phrased as a subjective question, it's perfectly okay to ask one person what he or she thinks of something that is (or should be) held as universally beautiful. Basically I was trying to reiterate g-money's point, but he put it much better than I could have.[/h]For me, some mathematical equations are exceedingly beautiful. Something like Euler's identity, in which algebra (i), geometry/trigonometry (Ï€) and calculus (e) come together in a totally unexpected yet oh-so-simple way. Its proof can be explained step-by-step, but when its final product comes together, I can't help but have appreciation for the seemingly invisible underlying order and connectivity that exists in the physics of the universe.
Also for the same reason I find Newton's formulas beautiful in that a small set of equations can be used to explain and predict every single human-scale event applicable is astounding.
A lot of people in other places on the Internet have mentioned Maxwell's formulas to be beautiful in the same sense too, but unfortunately I have never been smart enough to "get" electromagnetism and so it is lost on me.
This quote is rather sexy~
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Most everyone considers many very different things to be beautiful in some way or to some degree. Perhaps all these different beautiful things have and share some quality that causes them to be beautiful. Following loosely the ideas of Plato, then absolute beauty is an infinitely pure and extreme instance of the quality that allows things to be beautiful. Beautiful things are then beautiful because they possess to some lesser degree and purity the aspect of absolute beauty. Of course, beautiful objects possess other aspects, which is why many different things can be beautiful, and possess the aspect of absolute beauty to varying degrees of extremity and purity, which is why some beautiful things are more beautiful than other beautiful things.
This isn't so much a simple definition for absolute beauty but rather a way to conceive of it. Additionally, this is a philosophical idea that is actively used today. For example, in Judeo-Christian ideology, God would be absolute beauty, among other things, and humans are beautiful because they are created in the image of God.
Of course, as is always true with philosophy, there are countless other possible ways to answer the question, and it is unlikely than any one answer will put the debate to rest. Personally, I'm a bit more postmodern in my beliefs, but I posted the above possibility because it doesn't seem that others in the thread have mentioned it yet.
This isn't so much a simple definition for absolute beauty but rather a way to conceive of it. Additionally, this is a philosophical idea that is actively used today. For example, in Judeo-Christian ideology, God would be absolute beauty, among other things, and humans are beautiful because they are created in the image of God.
Of course, as is always true with philosophy, there are countless other possible ways to answer the question, and it is unlikely than any one answer will put the debate to rest. Personally, I'm a bit more postmodern in my beliefs, but I posted the above possibility because it doesn't seem that others in the thread have mentioned it yet.
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@Whitelion: I always like reading your posts because they contain a lot of interesting and intelligent pieces of information.
Don't you love it when the creator of the thread never comes back to give an appropriate response or to further the discussion? I suuure do.
Don't you love it when the creator of the thread never comes back to give an appropriate response or to further the discussion? I suuure do.
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Nothing as there is nothing in this world that are absolute in meaning nor significance except god itself. Everything in this world will fade, erode, corrode, and biased therefore didn't qualify as Absolute. Since the term 'in this world' refer to anything, then Beauty is also included and because nothing is absolute, there isn't any meaning of "absolute beauty" to me.
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g-money wrote...
@Whitelion: I always like reading your posts because they contain a lot of interesting and intelligent pieces of information.Don't you love it when the creator of the thread never comes back to give an appropriate response or to further the discussion? I suuure do.
well i had a shitload of time for it. there are some things that need be said tho.
its not limited to only what i said. i wanted the viewpoint of others. well if you say that its true that i am chewing it, then so be it.
base "absolute" word