Cameron Cruz What is Beauty

What is beauty? 

Beauty is a personal choice to recognize a unique sensation or feeling in which is received through ones senses or emotions. 

Example

The sky reminds me of beauty because it appeals to our senses as an open landscape that is separate from our daily society, in which we don’t have control of. The sky portrays a life like environment that gives the sensation of elegance, fascination, and exquisitenes.

After thoughts

After much thought and discussion, it became obvious that each person’s view and identity on beauty had some type of relation to others. Many of the views toggled between the ideology of subjective and objective approaches. The uniqueness of each definition created deep thought and doubt of whether beauty has a real definitive definition. My view of beauty is that it is in the eyes of the beholder. Each definition will very, in the end people create definitions based off of perception and argument.  I believe that beauty is something that lies dormant is becomes cognitive when triggered by an event or sensation. In regards to Plato’s definition of beauty, it is one that can be agreed with, but easily manipulated. His thoughts that beauty was a form or idea meant that it could be vulnerable to influences or outside factors that may lead to an artificial definition. The idea of letting outer experiences control something that should be a unique experience, becomes questionable in itself. I think Plato’s definition is one that may have worked in its time, but not in a modern society that reflects off of outside factors.