The Engineer said it best. It's a conundrum of philosophy. But it raises the question to the rest of us, what is beauty? How would you define it, and what personal quantities do you consider "beautiful"?
What is beauty?
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Yes, I totally made that up. I am not quoting anyone at all.
Yes, I totally made that up. I am not quoting anyone at all.
Well I think there is no definition to beauty... Mostly because every person has a different idea of what is beautiful and what is not. Guess this is one of those questions with a million answers...
Ideology of beauty for me is form and function over aesthetics, I prefer something that works well over something shiny and sparkly.
Such as in cars, I find Porsche Carrera GT a better looking car to the Enzo Ferrari, since the Porsche only looks that way to contain the engineering inside of it, and for aero drag purposes, while the Enzo looks like that to immitate the F40, if the Enzo looked different it would be faster due to drag co efficiency being greater.
I prefer my current girlfriend Hailey over my ex Emma, even though Emma has the bigger boobs, Hailey is better in the kitchen.
If the practicality of something or someone catches your eyes and makes you think, then surely that is beauty since what made you take you notice in the first place is what it or they can do, not what they look like.
or in gaming term, what would you prefer playing, Far Cry or Half life?
Such as in cars, I find Porsche Carrera GT a better looking car to the Enzo Ferrari, since the Porsche only looks that way to contain the engineering inside of it, and for aero drag purposes, while the Enzo looks like that to immitate the F40, if the Enzo looked different it would be faster due to drag co efficiency being greater.
I prefer my current girlfriend Hailey over my ex Emma, even though Emma has the bigger boobs, Hailey is better in the kitchen.
If the practicality of something or someone catches your eyes and makes you think, then surely that is beauty since what made you take you notice in the first place is what it or they can do, not what they look like.
or in gaming term, what would you prefer playing, Far Cry or Half life?
Eyes, I don't know why but I find people startlingly attractive if they have lovely eyes, and if they can hold a decent intellectual conversation but there are precious few specimens like that. But I have to say I find obese people horribly unattractive, the same with stick insect people, horribly repulsive.
Beauty is nature unbound.
Or something like that. I dunno. I'm not really much for this kind of stuff, I solve practical problems.
Or something like that. I dunno. I'm not really much for this kind of stuff, I solve practical problems.
Beauty, as akin to quality, is examined in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (reflecting many of my personal thoughts about this), a brilliant book about the comparison of subjectibity and objectivity with regards to what is good. That's not all it is about but one of several points. Personally, I see beauty as a distint mix of the subjective and objective. On one hand , there is love etc, which is willing to ignore the more objective societical (right or wrong) views of imperfection.
In people?
Symetrical body, average features (not to big or small, not too bent etc). Now add for both sexes a degree of the things that make them masculine or feminine and you have beauty (large breasts or strong jaw and so on). Sure some people will have preferences for what final form these things amount to, but I think these are the basic factors.
In buildings, I'd also say symmetry, intricacy and scope do it for me.
Symetrical body, average features (not to big or small, not too bent etc). Now add for both sexes a degree of the things that make them masculine or feminine and you have beauty (large breasts or strong jaw and so on). Sure some people will have preferences for what final form these things amount to, but I think these are the basic factors.
In buildings, I'd also say symmetry, intricacy and scope do it for me.