Topics Beauty

Question why is it that we see sunsets, mountains, life forms, geological formations, etc. and consider them to be beautiful.

Accepted:
October 17, 2013

Comments

A helpful answer might be that we see sunsets and mountains and so on as beautiful because they are beautiful. The reason I say that this answer is helpful is twofold. It moves the question away from the bias of a model in which (a) there is no beauty in nature, but (b) we project it onto nature, which together raise the question © 'Why these projections and not others?' That is all built into the question. The second helpful thing, as I see it, about the answer that I have suggested is that it puts the issue squarely on top of the traditional question what beauty is.

Question why is it that we see sunsets, mountains, life forms, geological formations, etc. and consider them to be beautiful. Accepted:October 17, 2013

Question why is it that we see sunsets, mountains, life forms, geological formations, etc. and consider them to be beautiful.

Accepted:
October 17, 2013