What should I read to understand beauty?
Why do humans find some people and things beautiful and other things and peoples ugly?
Also, beauty is something that you can't earn even with hard work. What's the point of becoming an Übermensch if you look in the mirror and see a disgusting ugly face?
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>another thinly veiled incel thread
In all fields.
Walden
Pornhub
Stop forcing this stupid meme.
Go back to Yea Forums or wherever you came from, stypid whore.
Greeks, zen, your own eyes.
>bottomless girl
Have sex.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller, followed by The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche.
go away tranny
Plotinus on the beautiful
Funny how i don't find your pic that beautiful anymore. Really interesting how our tastes change over the years.
Have sex, incel.
Because you want to do that?
Stop using my face. Do you want my phone number or not? Just tell me already i sense you do
That’s like my thing too Butterfly :3 you better be doing that while you’re posting
I went on a tirade about how Pine trees and Redwood trees are aesthetically pleasing. He meandered on about how the Oak is the more beautiful, that the expansion horizontally is more appealing to him than vertically, that he likes the larger palm-shaped leaves and disliked the needles of my more beloved trees. However, we both came to agree that Palm trees are the niggers of the tree world.
Porn has corrupted your mind brother, that woman is beautiful in a way your demented mind can not even understand anymore.
Ok, bend over
Aesthetic Theory by Theodor Adorno
The Critique of Aesthetic Judgement by Immanuel Kant
Letter to Can Grande Delia Scalla by Dante Alighieri
The Poetics by Aristotle
On the Sublime by Longinus
Epistle to the Pisones by Horace
An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
Contemporary Art Theory by Igor Zabel
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
The Art Spirit By Robert Henri
The Return of the Real by Hal Foster
Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Critic As Artist by Oscar Wilde
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
The Art of Fiction by Henry James
Lectures on Aesthetics by G.W.F. Hegel
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Art and Answerability by Mikhail Bakhtin
Heteroglossia in the Novel by Mikhail Bakhtin
Aesthetics and Politics by Ernst Bloch
Lectures on Art by Alphonse Mucha
Lectures on Ethics by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace by Arthur Danto
After the End of Art by Arthur Danto
What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision by Adrienne Rich
Structure, Sign, and Play by Jacques Derrida
The Archetypes of Literature by Northrop Frye
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
What Is an Author by Michel Foucault
The Deconstruction of the Linguistic Sign by Umberto Eco
Representing Ophelia by Elaine Showalter
Shakespeare and the Exorcists by Stephen Greenblatt
A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity In Walden by Barbara Johnson
Aesthetics Volume I and II by Dietrich von Hildebrand
The Relevance of the Beautiful by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Aesthetica by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
Philosophical Thoughts by Denis Diderot
The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Laocoon by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The Inhuman by Jean-François Lyotard
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
History of Beauty by Umberto Eco
Aesthetic ideology by Paul de Man
Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture by Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Corpus by Jean-Luc Nancy
“The Origin of the Work of Art” by Martin Heidegger
“Of the Passions,” “Of Tragedy,” “Of the Standard of Taste,” from Four Dissertations by David Hume
Art as Experience
Damn son good fucking list
Plato's Symposium
her toes aren't visible. for fuck's sake.
Sex and Character by Otto Weininger talks a bit about man's perception of beauty
>Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
yuck
you deserve high praise. thank you
A lot of crap in there but I appreciate the range.
what drives a person to act like this?
Did the invention of the camera ruin women?
Before, they had to live with their beauty in the moment and realize it's also a fleeting thing. Now 90% of their waking life is taken up by posing for cameras or hypothetically/potentially posing for one. They are insane narcissists.
Have sex, seething incel.
I spent two weeks living with and working for a middle-aged German couple last year. One a successful abstract artist, the other a writer. We all got along very well in conversation, and the writer lady delighted in how interested I was in her library. Then the moment came when she asked me what the point of endlessly improving my brain and body was when I couldn't appreciate the beauty of the frozen river I ran along each morning before reading dense philosophies later on. Well I had no answer for her, and I felt anger because she had revealed such an underdeveloped part of me. It took me months to finally understand that interaction, but the moments came in waves - always moments of awe at natural scenes, scenes that I not only saw but felt in my chest and spirit. That's the closest I've come to understanding beauty so far.
How many have you read?
pic isn't beautiful.
i don't mean the woman - she's attractive - but the composition itself. i get that it must be a modern venus, but the pose, the clothes, etc - they don't present any harmony or taste.
even her face. that's s typical thoughtless "model" countenance - unfixed stare into nowhere, half-opened mouth, not a single mimic wrinkle.
photoshop is very visible, the shell doesn't fit, her hand looks weird, the editing removed any sign of expression from the outlines of her legs.
drapes don't compliment the line of action(which is also crooked and unsmooth).
i swear to god, modeling and fashion photography is a mistake.
Completely corrupted.
based and aesthetepilled
Not him, but while she's certainly an attractive woman, I don't really like her face.
I think this (guy)'s right.
>earning
>ubermensch
>mirror
>no zizek lol
The pain of 'her' evening dilation session.
Just a reminder that you're beautiful, and you should masturbate on camera more often :4
I have seen that username so many times.... What are you actually?
Think you’re on to something user
You could argue they were ruined by the invention of the mirror.
History of beauty and History of ugliness by Umberto Eco
Also look up in to aesthetics
Basically just Kant and Lacan.
Maybe look into Foucault's Hist of Sexuality and some Sade to complement.
But mostly Lacan.
beauty doesn't even exist
Stare at pic related long enough and you'll understand beauty.
>What should I read to understand beauty?
Your discernment.
>Why do humans find some people and things beautiful and other things and peoples ugly?
Because humans evaluate things according to their sensibilities.
>Also, beauty is something that you can't earn even with hard work.
That is false. All entities that are born into this world, are born into it possessing abundance of Spirit/Lifepotential, that can be either, nourished and cultivated via the Spiritual and Ideal, in the process becoming beautiful/sublime / manifesting in beauty/sublimity, and attaining transcendence of the material, physical, and natural, or tarnished and dissipated via the sensual and material, in the process losing its beauty/latent potential, and succumbing to falleness.
bitterness and projection user, bitterness and projection
>i swear to god, modeling and fashion photography is a mistake.
You are a pseud. And I know that because you're unable to put forward objective beauty criterias. The critique you give is just personal preference expressed as if you know what you're talking about. Name 5 things beauty is, and I will reconsider.
True beauty is waking up to find a song mix you worked on in an efukt video. The small eccentricities of life and the constant reminder that the carnivalesque is still alive and well is true beauty. Hidden truths often stolen away only for you to have momentary glimpses of them flashed before you like the afterimage produced by a flashing strobe in a mislabeled .swf on /f/-- or waking up to find something you worked on for countless hours juxtaposed against a vaguely Eastern European man sucking the snot out of a woman's nose.
Life is truly beautiful.
probably some CIA agent delegitimizing anything remotely 'intellectual'
you guys need to realize we're on the internet and half of the posters aren't, in fact, real posters. you need to realize philosophy is dead and it's not ideology that's driving our society but the CIA (and various liberal institutions)
read your foucault
I feel discomfort and unease at the initial glance of this. What beauty exists within?
go ahead and post it just in case he wants it.