...Beauty lies in the Eyes of Beholder: How true is this Statement? There is a famous saying that beauty lies in the eyes of beholder. In many instances this statement proves to be true as various people have different tastes. In some instances where we see huge billboards, magazine covers and television advertisements covered with faces of beautiful models we do not agree with the statement ‘Beauty lies in the Eyes of Beholder’ as such instances there are so many people involved having similar tastes. Some men prefer dating chubby women with fair complexion while others prefer skinny women with attractive vital stats. Similarly, some women prefer hairy men and find them strong and attractive while some think of such men as virile and repulsive. The concept of beauty has evolved from era to era. In the modern world men and women have different tastes for beauty while people living in early 60’s and 70’s had different tastes for beauty. In the earlier eras women had to be fat to be considered as beautiful as seen in many of the paintings of the Titian. The concept of beauty is again changing gradually with popular actors like Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Jennifer Lopez revealing that a beautiful woman is indeed with curves. As a matter of fact, when we are younger and growing up we admire things that appear beautiful from the outside. We are tempted towards beautiful men and women without considering much about their real inner self. But as we grow and enter...
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...There is a saying "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". What one individual considers beautiful may not be beautiful to another. To me, beauty is not only something that pleases the eyes, but also pleases the other senses and the mind. I think true beauty makes you see beyond the lovely sight. It will give you insight or realization of something interesting beyond just the outward appearance. When we talk about beauty in people, we often refer to their physical attractiveness. Of course, a beautiful or handsome face is pleasant to look at. But I find that the most memorable "beautiful people" are those who have captivating personalities behind the pretty faces. In one of my previous classes, there were two beautiful girls, Sue and Lin. Both had almost flawless faces and trim figures. But Lin was used to getting her way. She felt that her looks could help her get anything she wanted, especially among the boys. Sue, on the other hand, treated her beauty in a matter-of-fact way and she was nice to everyone. She was also a member of the debating team, her personality made her a more outstanding beauty than Lin. There is another kind of beauty in people that attracts me greatly. This is what is known as inner beauty. People who have this kind of beauty have attained inner peace. They care about their fellow-man, and try to right the injustices in this world. Two well-known personalities who exemplify this are Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa. Mandela was willing to sacrifice...
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...Brooke Baker Soc 202 Beauty Essay Is Beauty Really in the Eye of the Beholder No matter what I do not think beauty is ever going to be a fair topic to discuss. I have always heard beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what is beauty. I looked on google.com and found the definition of beauty to be a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. In the reading given to us from Psychology Today, we are told beauty is unobtainable. The author talks about the aspect of beauty being about the body shape, hair color, and if someone is aesthetically pleasing to look at. Are these things something of truth or is it all a fake world we live in? I feel as though every person feels a little bit different about beauty and what it is and how to maintain it, but since we have a set standard for unattainable beauty no person will ever compare. Beauty is said in the article to be unobtainable. Unobtainable beauty is a set shape our body has to be. Everyone can relate to the struggle of wanting our bodies to be to the unobtainable standard of beauty. Along with the shape comes color. I am sure any one can agree that it is a well known thought and belief that if you are tan or have a darker skin complexion you are more attractive in turn making you more beautiful. A tall dark skinny male or female is much more aesthetically pleasing to the eye than a chubby pale red haired person. We have ...
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...The concept of beauty is the difficult thing to explain. The perception of beauty differs from each person. Beauty is depended on the eyes of the beholder or sometimes it is defined by the feeling and personal opinions. For many people, they explain the word “beauty “that means someone owes a good – looking appearance. Beauty can be considered as the external appearance. These days, people spend a lot of time and money on how they look; they also spend on cosmetics, fitness programs, expensive clothes as well as plastic surgery in the billions dollars a year in order to achieve the beauty in their own perception. The perception of beauty’s appearance is varied. In studies done by Psychologist such as Victor Johnston at New Mexico State University and David in Scotland, men regularly showed preference for women with certain features: larger eyes, fuller lips and a smaller nose. Another study suggests that women prefer men with large shoulder and a narrow waist. There are people who always believe that beauty is truly expressed by appearance. But in contrast to their concept, some other people are attracted by internal beauty. They do believe that appearances are generally deceptive. Beauty is the essence of life but internal beauty is the essence of the soul. Nobody knows if a person with a beautiful face may have an ugly heart? The face as well as the appearance does not speak out anything in mind. External fades with the time, but internal beauty stays with you forever. Your...
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...Is beauty subjective? In the philosophical domain, the question over subjectivity of beauty has been greatly discussed and debated. If one wishes to look for definite outcome of these debates, we could as well say that beauty has been viewed by majority as objective entity in past but postmodernist views have rendered it as subjective once again. In the paper we plan to inspect upon the topic from scratch by looking at the following questions. In what sense is something beautiful? How can one firmly criticise that one’s taste is better or worse than the other? How can one defend a particular style in the face of many other contradictory opponents? We also put forward some of the historical perspective of the debate. For example, Plato’s view of objective beauty. He can considered as one of the pioneers over the topic. He wrote meticulously on the subject, what is beautiful was largely defined by a few individuals who were thought to actually have taste, who thought that only a classical building could represent beauty. They suggested that there was an objective criterion in measuring beauty instead of one that was subject to our moods, emotions, and personality. We then show how this idea fell over how classical beauty was born, dead, and revived. We also inspect over how objective beauty become obsolete i.e. where did the objective standard of beauty go wrong? Why would anyone rival against the absolute formulas for anything. How does concept of ‘absolute’ so...
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...have no questions for them to research and experiment. According to Wolff, the Milesians who are considered philosophers were also scientist. Thales who is known as the first philosopher was an astronomer. By his knowledge of the stars he could predict the weather (Wolff, 14). “Following Thales were the Milesians Anaximander and Anaximenes, who expanded and developed speculative theories about the basic components of nature and their order…. They started Western civilization on its scientific journey (Wolff, 15). Lucretius a Roman philosopher and poet defended the Cosmological theory called atomism, in which everything in the universe is made up of little bits of matter called atoms which are so small they cannot be seen by the naked eye (another surprisingly modern doctrine) (Wolff, Chp.1 pt.). Science and...
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...Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder. This phrase first appeared in Greece in the third century BC and is still believed by people today. With today's society’s standards, though, who is the beholder? The media produced all around us makes beauty seem like some big thing and that all people should look the way a model looks on a billboard or in a magazine. What kind of message is this? If you don't like the way your body looks, just try to make it look like that supermodel you saw! This is an awful way of portraying beauty to youth, so really, what exactly is beauty? There are many different views on what beauty is all over the world. Ancient Greeks introduced beauty as something that produces delightful reactions and sensations in the mind. In that time period, proportion and symmetry were beautiful to the human eye. The Ancient Greeks thought pale skin and golden colored hair were beautiful and showed prestige. Greek women would take the risk of lightening their skin with white lead, a toxic material that very well could have shortened their lifespans. To lighten their hair to this nice golden color, they would apply vinegar to their locks and spend time in the sun. To prevent tanning their skin while doing this process, brimmed hats were used to shield the skin from the sun’s rays (Beautiful with Brains). The Greeks were obsessed with the human physique, being an example of perfect symmetry. Aesthetics like these were what led to the modern opinions of what beauty...
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...Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Everyone has their own opinions on what beauty consists of. It is in cliché expression “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This means beauty can come from within a person’s soul or from the outside of looking at woman’s body. As it just happened, saying the word “beauty” on most occasions comes hand in hand with the word woman. In the story “A Woman’s Beauty: Put – Down or Power Source” by Susan Sontag. Sontag states; “To be called beautiful is thought to name something essential to women’s character and concerns. (In contrast to men whose essence is to be strong or effective, or competent.)” (Sontag.488.1) The word beautiful may not seem synonymous with men in 2015 but handsome is, as the word “handsome” feels more masculine. Before Miss USA even was a thought in 1951 there has always been a standard held to what is beautiful. The ancient Greeks wrote of goddesses who were fertile and glowing and to this day has been a permanent foundation for “beauty.” Women got taught that beauty is what they see on the outside because if a female cannot get the necessary glow needed naturally then do it synthetically. These ways that women were communicated about are extremely prevalent still to this day if not more so, because even though in ancient Greece women were goddesses with being fertile and glowing there was beauty on males mind as well. It was only until Christianity came along and “…sent beauty adrift-as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial...
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...Seductive looks. Sexy body. Glittering eyes. Kissable lips. Pinkish cheeks. Tantalizing beauty. And inviting curves. Beauty is a crime. There are thousands of definitions for beauty. Each has a face and a story to tell. And there are many degrees of it. But how do you define beauty? Scientists describe beauty as a summation of averages. Geometrically, it is a configuration of symmetrical lines. While poets said beauty is in the eye of beholder. Yet, is it really in the eye of beholder? Nowadays, the outer appearance of a person tells how beautiful she is. And unfortunately people criticize directly on what’s been displayed outside without even peeking on the beauty within. For as long as you’ve got that pleasing and mesmerizing looks, you’re in the list. It may be sad, but the essence of real beauty is now slowly fading away. However, there is also sadness in beauty. Beauty could be ugly. It could be a threat. And it could be a crime. It is the beauty that drives a person to commit a crime and sometimes used to create such one. Women are designed to be beautiful. Her skin, hair and other features were created to be soft and appealing, and her body was fashioned to be attractive to men. Every inch of hers were solely created for men. A woman is for pleasure. And without them, man would be incomplete and omit one piece of him. As we glance to the current society we live in, where everyone gives emphasis to physical appearance and how they will look like minute by minute and...
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...Rehtorical Analsysis of “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” There is a cliché quote that people say, “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders, but more specifically teenage to middle age men and women, but he writes about it in a humorous and light-hearted manner. In the essay, Barry juxtaposes men and women views of beauty by using the famous supermodel, Cindy Crawford, as the standard of apperance that women strive to achieve, even though that the women could never exactly look like Cindy Crawford, no matter how much or the way you apply the make-up. As for the men Barry uses the famous actor Bradd Pitt, as the strandard that men, not necessairly try to achieve, but as how a man is not suppose to be or act. He claims that men look at Brad Pitt as a pretty boy and that he would be ignorant to the tasks of a real man. Barry uses a different examples to juxtapose men and women view about beauty using Barbie and Action figures. He uses action figures for, of course, the men and that men not strive to look like the action, but how men uses action figures as a model of how a man is supposse to act and carry himself...
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...The Eye of the Beholder “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” but what if the beholder’s vision is blurred? The media today dictates what is beautiful, and these standards are so high that they are impossible to reach. Both Camille Paglia and Daniel Akst point this out in their essays about the effects these standards have on the general population. Paglia uses an appeal to the emotion of her upper-class middle-aged women audience who may choose plastic surgery as a method to stay beautiful whereas Akst uses all forms of rhetorical devices to appeal to everyone in defining what beauty truly is. Camille Paglia, Yale graduate and professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, says in her essay “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery” depicts the belief in the beauty of uniformity. Women have a belief that if they don’t look a certain way, then they are not beautiful, so they turn to plastic surgery. In an excerpt from her essay, Paglia shows us this example of a media sex icon “...Amazonian superheroines like Lara Croft: large breasts with a flat midriff and lean hips, a hormonally anomalous profile that few women can attain without surgical intervention or liposuction” (793). What Paglia attempts to accomplish with this essay is to appeal to the emotions of these women, so that they will not lose identity in this sea of uniformity. But woman are constantly having to compete with the young and sexy media icons and turn to things like...
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...First Last Dr. Professor What judges a face to be aesthetically pleasing? PSY 472 What is beauty? According to dictionary.com, beauty is defined as the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations, meaningful designs, or something else. By this definition, anything that provides pleasure to one's mind can be considered beautiful. This concept of beauty is seen as being quite abstract. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is the phrase that is often heard when discussing the topic of attractiveness but is this true? Does beauty really depend on who is looking? Beauty or aesthetics are often looked at in reference to artwork. Aesthetic means to be “concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty; also the philosophical theory or set of principles governing the idea of beauty at a given time and place (dictionary.com).” These words will be used interchangeably throughout this paper. There are many different opinions on what aesthetic qualities allow a painting to be considered beautiful. Some of these qualities are balance, rhythm, emphasis, proportion, sequence and repetition (Clair, 1939). Another article by Chen (????), measured what participants looked at when deciding whether or not a painting is beautiful and the frequent factors were meaning, brushstroke, style, shape, perspective, mood, originality, balance, and unity. An exhibition at the Birchfield Penny Art...
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...Approaching Philosophy Deirdre Cuyler AIU ONLINE Metaphysics: Metaphysics is a derivative of philosophy that examines the fundamental configuration and nature of that which is genuine and authentic (real). At the existing time, we as mortals have no forthright way of discerning what is real. Reality consists of everything we encounter. Our thoughts, perceptions, feelings, dreams, and even delusions, living and dying; are all involved in this experience we know as realness. The physical world is more real than the spiritual or psychological world, because its not a world of fabrication or imagery, yet an ultimately real atmosphere for the mortal spirit. The spirit world is an independent domain of reality, however it fuses with the physical world. Yes, there is a such thing as a soul. In mortals the soul is what makes us mortals, the body acts as the armor for the soul. The soul cannot survive outside of the body. Each individual has free will it is our preferences/decisions that influence us to the passages that we are on and the passages that we will acquire in the future. Our free will is what establishes our fate. Epistemology: Epistemology is a category of philosophy that researches the basis, character, means, and restrictions of mortal ability. Anything can be known, its comprehending and perceiving the aspect of what is known...
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...Beauty Pageants in Today’s Society Beauty pageants have been a part of the American Society since the 1920’s so that women or young girls can compete and be judged mainly on their physical appearance, but also on talent and personality. They say pageants build a young woman’s confidence because she is up on stage, where all eyes are directed toward her, cheering her on, ultimately making her feel glamorous. In “Introduction to Beauty Pageants: At Issue” Rosie Goldsmith says, “Those in favor of the pageants argue that there is no shame in showing off one’s beauty, fitness, and health.” Others say it is a great way to make friends and have life long friendships. With all of these benefits that come along with beauty pageants, what could possibly be so harmful about them? Beauty pageants may build some women’s confidence and help build friendships, but overall, beauty pageants are degrading to women and serve no real purpose in today’s society. There are a few reasons that are considered to come to the conclusion that beauty pageants causes more harm that good. The first thing that is considered is the fact that they are judged on appearance and poise. “A beauty should be judged for the good works, not for the beautiful thighs and backless blouses.” By judging a woman based on her physical appearance and her clothes, we are degrading women to mere objects. Women have fought way too hard for equality and respect for the last several decades to be lowered to mere objects parading...
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...the say " Beauty in the eye of the beholder" do you ever wonder what is the definition of beauty? There are many viewpoints to the word beauty. What is your opinion on beauty? My opinion for beauty is a mixture of unique details that combine in to a positive vision or feeling. Beauty is elegance, beauty is style, beauty is grace, and it has a certain pizzazz that always eye catching. What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word beauty? Do you think of something glowing or do you see something florid? Beauty can be an emotion. Even though everyone knows what beauty is, many people struggle to define it and convince others to agree with their views. The idea of beauty is not just a physical appearance of a person or object. It is an understanding that gives some feeling experienced to a person's eyes, ears, intellect, and to their sense. There are many classifications of beauty. Beauty can be classified as style, emotion, and vision. Beauty can also be classified by a person's personality. If beauty is described by a person's personality this would be considered inner beauty. If a person's personality is positive then that would be considered beauty. However, if it is negative then it wouldn’t be beauty at all. Personality is the differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.(Apa) Personality...
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