[lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:57:34 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

No delete key on your computer, Erin?



-----Original Message-----
>From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 21, 2007 2:47 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?
>
>OK guys, let's not beat a dead horse...
>Erin
>Toronto
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>Quoting Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>    "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
>> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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.>>
>> ========Original Message========
>>
>>      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
>>      To:             lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>      Sent on:
>>
>> Again.  I never said subjectivity indicates meaninglessness.
>>
>>   -----Original Message-----
>> From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
>> Sent: Feb 21, 2007 11:02 AM
>> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>>      To:             lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>      Sent on:
>>
>> 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
>> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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