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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify "beauty" into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

  6. 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.

  7. Ancient aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics is defined as the perception of art, design or beauty. [2] Aesthetics is derived from the Greek word "aisthetikos" [3] defined as a perception of the senses.In aesthetics, there is a process of individual analysis, perception and imagination. [4]

  8. Metaphysical aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics aims to explore questions relating to the natural world, beauty and art, and the intertwining of each. Therefore, in conjunction with metaphysical concepts, these two branches of philosophy explore the transformative and distinctiveness of art and what distinguishes something as art.

  9. What is your definition of beauty? Q&A with # ... - AOL

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    CT: Definition of beauty is owning who you are. Acne, moles, dimples, freckles, minimal brows, crooked teeth are all little bits of goodness about someone. But, really, beauty is about being a ...