[lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:34:58 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

"I never said that something subjective is meaningless.  I said that beauty is so subjective as to be meaningless.  If one person thinks a cup of mud is ugly while another thinks it's sublimely beautiful, each subjective experience is valid, but it says absolutely nothing about beauty.  In fact, it renders the word beauty meaningless."     
 



-----Original Message-----
From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
Sent: Feb 21, 2007 12:29 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?

<<Beauty means anything to anybody.  To talk about beauty is basically to talk about opinion.  Beauty is so subjective that it's meaningless.>>

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Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: BeaBeauty means anything to anybody.  To talk about beauty is basically to talk about opinion.  Beauty is so subjective that it's meaningless.uty, anyone?
Date: 2/21/2007 11:15:47 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Again.  I never said subjectivity indicates meaninglessness.



 
-----Original Message-----
From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
Sent: Feb 21, 2007 11:02 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?

My problem with your assertion was not that "beauty is subjective" -- of course it is.  My problem was with "therefore it is meaningless". 
 
Again.  What about subjectivity indicates meaninglessness?
 
Julie Krueger
 

========Original Message========
Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?
Date: 2/21/2007 8:57:11 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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You make the original point exactly.  Beauty is anything anyone thinks it is. 



 
-----Original Message-----
From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
Sent: Feb 21, 2007 9:46 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?

 

<<For Julie, Beauty sounds good, but unless you're talking about Plato or Plato's horse, what is Beauty?  >>

 
Do you ever use the word "beauty"?  If you do, you know what it is.
 
Julie Krueger

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