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  2. Argument from beauty - Wikipedia

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    The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of a realm of immaterial ideas or, most commonly, for the existence of God, that roughly states that the evident beauty in nature, art and music and even in more abstract areas like the elegance of the laws of physics or the elegant laws of mathematics is evidence of a creator deity who has arranged these ...

  3. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

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    According to Leopold, the three features of ecosystems that generate land ethic are integrity, stability and beauty. [7] None of the mentioned features are real in nature. Ecosystems are not stable: they are dramatically changing and they have little integration; ergo, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. [7]

  4. Etheric body - Wikipedia

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    Teachings of an etheric body can be found in some branches of Buddhism and Hinduism. [1] Linga sarira is a Sanskrit term for the invisible double of the human body. [1]In Mahayana Buddhism, the soul leaves the body at death in a "shining" body which is able to pass through matter.

  5. Incorporeality - Wikipedia

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    Incorporeality is "the state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism." [1] Incorporeal (Greek: ἀσώματος [2]) means "Not composed of matter; having no material existence.

  6. Ode on a Grecian Urn - Wikipedia

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    'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' has precisely the same status, and the same justification as Shakespeare's 'Ripeness is all.' It is a speech 'in character' and supported by a dramatic context. To conclude thus may seem to weight the principle of dramatic propriety with more than it can bear.

  7. How people define beauty in 19 different countries - AOL

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    Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder, but do different countries, with their different cultural values, have different ideas of what is beautiful? One recent college graduate wanted to ...

  8. Beauty - Wikipedia

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    Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, art and taste are the main subjects of aesthetics, one of the fields of study within philosophy.

  9. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The beauty which is spread over the face of visible nature is an emanation from this spiritual beauty, and is beauty because it symbolizes and expresses the latter. Thus the beauty of a plant resides in its perfect adaptation to its end, a perfection which is an expression of the wisdom of its Creator.