Have you come to think if there are any rules, specifications, or characteristics of how someting has to be to be BEAUTIFUL? Before reading chapter 9, "The Shiver of Beauty" I thought I knew what pleasure and beauty mean. But after reading it, I ended with a different meaning of those words, and now I see them different. As I now understand, Pleasure is what makes us feel good, happy, full and want more of that; as Beauty is subjective to everyone, what we can call as perfect, and what give us a good sensation by just seeing it.
In the beginning of the chapter, Savater talks about PLEASURE. He says pleasure is what we enjoy, and as I understood we can have physical an mental pleasure.
Everyday we can call beautiful to anything that is pretty, that has beauty, and we know beauty is subjective. What can seem beautiful for me can seem ugly for someone else. There is no concept for beauty. There are no rules, no specifications to name something beautiful. But also what we can call beauty is not the same as moral respect or admiration. Savater uses a clearly example about the egypcian pyramids. By first sight, most of the people can say that The Great Pyramid is a beautiful thing, but thinking more deeply, we can have admiration, because I think no one can feel pleasure by seeing it, knowing how it was built, with all those sacrifices, unfair suffering, deaths, and we can come to think that it was not morally right to build it. So this opens us the scope for what beauty is, as I said before it is subjective and no one can really judge is something is really beautiful in the inside and outside, or not.
Everyday we can call beautiful to anything that is pretty, that has beauty, and we know beauty is subjective. What can seem beautiful for me can seem ugly for someone else. There is no concept for beauty. There are no rules, no specifications to name something beautiful. But also what we can call beauty is not the same as moral respect or admiration. Savater uses a clearly example about the egypcian pyramids. By first sight, most of the people can say that The Great Pyramid is a beautiful thing, but thinking more deeply, we can have admiration, because I think no one can feel pleasure by seeing it, knowing how it was built, with all those sacrifices, unfair suffering, deaths, and we can come to think that it was not morally right to build it. So this opens us the scope for what beauty is, as I said before it is subjective and no one can really judge is something is really beautiful in the inside and outside, or not.
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