Once you start thinking about it, it’s really hard to define the word “beautiful”. People may take a different meaning for the same word which isn’t a physical object which we could easily define, but can be granted as some sort of feeling, something subjective depending on what you like or dislike and then decide whether you think something is beautiful or not.Chapter 9 talks about Cheops’ Great Pyramid dilemma, whether we can call it beautiful or not. Arguing that the pyramid is beautiful, we could tell that the fact that it produces visual pleasure to us or that the pyramid is unique, which makes it beautiful. Arguing against it, the pyramid was built by thousands of slaves who carried large stones and were treated very badly. In the moral perspective, the creation of the pyramids are wrong, which makes them not beautiful at all.
I personally think that the result should be the only think accounted as beautiful. The ways or actions that make possible the pyramid to exist doesn’t really matter. The fact that the pyramid is unique and gigantic or that the pyramid is a real masterpiece is what really makes it beautiful in spite of the morally wrong ways in which it was constructed. What you personally admire as beautiful is always the result, not the process of elaboration.
I really agree with Erick. But I think that there are many different kinds of beautiful depending on the perspective you see it. If you think about how the pyramid was created you will say that is a horrible masterpiece but in the other hand, if you don’t know the background information of it and you are just walking in the middle of the desert and see it, you will believe that it is beautiful. I think it is according in what you think, know or believe.
ResponderEliminarI'm with you on this Erick, I don't think that the fact that many slaves were tortured so that this pyramid was built changes the fact that it is indeed beautiful. I'm not saying that salvery is ok but it really doesn't matter. You can be sorry for the people that suffered to bbuild this pyramid but there's no point in saying that it is not beautiful... in fact, I would dare say that even the salves that built it said it was beautiful... To me... something is beautiful when, the moment you look at it brings you any kind of pleasure
ResponderEliminarI agree also with Erick, I will go with the option that beautiful thinks are beautiful because they are when you see them, we don't see a thing and think all the past it have had we just see how beautiful it is, sometimes we don't even know what is its past. So we can call beautiful that what we think it is, lets not get influenced by the past.
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