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Old 04-17-2007, 08:58 AM   #5 (permalink)
Takuin Minamoto
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Originally Posted by Michael Chui View Post
Re: "What is beauty to you?"

I'm a generalist, so I'll give a general answer. I think that beauty is concordance: it's a descriptor of how much something matches up to an ideal.
I see, I see. Nice answer. And the ideal is the thing with which you are seeing beauty; if it matches, it is beauty, and if not, it isn't. Is that right?

If you didn't have the ideal at all, how would you see things? What would then be beautiful?

How is our ideal generated in the first place? What is the thing that creates it?
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