It is said that beauty is indefinable since various philosophers and scholars of art have not been able to conclude on the same definition. Among these are Plato, Socrates, and Nietzsche. Each has given their point of perspective to society.
For example, in one of Plato's greatest works, the Greater Hippias (390 BC) an attempt was made to give a definition of beauty.
However, from his point of view, the philosopher does not only indicate that beauty is perceived through the sensory senses.
The philosophical community of aesthetics supports that the quality of something "beautiful" is strictly tied to matter. For Plato, beauty went further and encompassed social or political characters.
Plato tries to explain a definition of beauty in his work "Banquet." One of his most famous phrases indicates that “there is something worth living for, it is to contemplate beauty”.
For the Wikipedia web, beauty is an "abstract notion linked to many aspects of human existence."
However, there are still great disagreements. An example of this are various theories that indicate that it is not only linked to the human being.
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For the German philosopher Nietzsche, beauty has a totally different perception. For him, it is tied to an aesthetic form, and it must certainly offer sensory pleasures.
It also indicates that there must be "harmony" for there to be beauty. The contradiction between both currents is notorious.
In turn, for Martin Heidegger beauty is coupled with aesthetic factors. The interpretation of what he calls "imitator of nature" is a key factor to "dignify the object". It is what he considers as "The aesthetic look".
In an analysis of the famous work of the painter Vincent Van Gogh, "The Shoes" indicated the following:
Other authors have given their own definition, without any of them obtaining a concept that agrees with the rest.
The bottom line is that the concept of beauty is too complex to standardize.
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- abc.es. Friedrich Nietzsche: On art and beauty. (2017). Recovered from: abcblogs.abc.es.
- wikipedia.org. Beauty. (2017). Recovered from: es.wikipedia.org.
- Jordi Puigdomènech. HEIDEGGER AND THE AESTHETIC LOOK. (2015). Recovered from: joanmaragall.com.