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Author: chenchaoyi

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                             <h2 class="single-line-title">Wherever Philosophy Takes You (part 4: Beauty and Love)</h2>
                             <p class="post-meta">Posted on October 2025</p>
 
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                                     <h3 class="section-heading">The definitions of beauty and love</h3>
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                                     <p>One of the most common arguments about beauty is its subjectivity. Some argue that beauty, in many cases, is objectively present, while others argue that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." The latter is one of the most modernized and politically correct beliefs, but perhaps the truth is so much less simple than that. To claim that beauty is entirely subjective implies that a world without perceivers is one without beauty or ugliness. On the other hand, asserted "objectivity" of beauty claims that there might be a scientific quotient for beauty, which is equally conceptual.</p>
 
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                                     <p>Eighteenth-century philosophers Kant and Hume agree that to say beauty is completely relative to its perceivers is to erase the paramount value of beauty in the first place. They argue that if beauty were to be completely subjective, then the usage of the word "beauty" would lose its relative meaning in daily contexts, used only to to express an approving personal impression, when the word's cultural intent runs deeper than that.</p>
 
                                     <p>On the other hand, many philosophers of the late nineteenth century believed that beauty was a value instead of a perception; an emotion of pleasure upon seeing something physically attractive. However, I rather agree with writer Crispin Sartwell's contradiction, that when we point out the beauty of a night sky, it isn't to report a personal sensation of pleasure but to remark on an outward projection of aesthetic attraction. Beauty, Crispin argues, is about how we aesthetically appreciate objects outside of ourselves. (Although then again, that report of outward admiration could very well be a disguise for inner admiration, for admiration is a value.)</p>
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                                     <p>Whether beauty be subjective or objective, emotional or observational, associational or relative, it is undeniable that the concept of it has sparked intriguing debates on society, emotion and value.</p>
 
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                                     <p>Putting aside the conceptual aspects of beauty, the impact of social perception and cultural learnings on its definition is also notable.</p>
 
                                     <p>The world has gone through ages where plumpness was pleasant, teeth-blackening was flattering, feminine features were in and then, conversely, bony bodies too. Many would say that these varying beauty standards is what proves the subjectivity of beauty. After all, if the tide of beauty standards is always being contained by the differently shaped glass jars of society, why doesn't that flexibility show for its subjectiveness?</p>
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                                     <p>Nevertheless, the influence of social acceptance on beauty remains, sparking questions on the true importance of localized interpretation.</p>
 
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                                     <p>Beauty has also played extreme roles in politics, economics and advertising, with each societal ideal selling the equal definition of beauty that benefits marketing landscapes of Marxism, radical advocation and partisan finance, though data on that is more objective, which is why I will not be going into it.</p>
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                                     <p>This swerve from companionship to fervor inadvertently brought on a new layer of meaning to love: romance. Ever since then, the social perception on "love" has swerved into passion, raising the question of love's subjectivity.</p>
 
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                                     <p>Personally, love definitely seems to change within society, but the core meaning remains consistent: it is a yearning of the human nature. The only thing that "changed" about love is that every single time, different aspects of it have been highlighted: loyalty, companionship, passion, etc.</p>
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                                     <p>But <em>is</em> love human emotion? Love seems to be a stronger term than "joy" or "anger", as it consists of multiple human emotions instead of a singular, named one. That raises the question of whether love consists of a pattern of behaviors, or a mere belief within the human awareness. The belief that love consists mainly of emotions is to believe that love exists mentally, but that contradicts with how we as a society see a "happy" or "unhappy" marriage, as the usual dam dividing one from another is the former pattern of behaviors.</p>
 
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                                     <p>Personally, it wouldn't be a surprise if love was proved to be detached from the physical cognitive line, similar to the soul. Whether or not humans have souls is arguable; a soul could very well be a pattern of behaviors sparked by human chemistry. The same applies to love. But unlike a regular value or pattern, love seems to wind deeper into a part of a person's core identity—affirming to the common belief that the lover is passive to the beloved. This rather supports the belief that love exists mentally inside of human awareness, which is an ideal that I prefer over the belief that love exists in behaviors.</p>
 
                                     <p>But to claim that love is formed both through behaviors and through timeless devotion is conceptual too: for it claims that a man without action is one with any less love, and that the social boundaries for behaviors typically interpreted as "love" should affect the existence of such, or if the boundaries should affect love, would lessen the spirit of love any less.</p>
 
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                                     <p>In parallel, other types of love including love from parents, siblings, mentors and friends are not to be ignored either, and all of them present different philosophical aspects of love: if love transcended everything, shouldn't it be unified and <em>one</em> among everything it influences? If friendship was about companionship and loyal love and nothing else, what more does romantic love offer outside of passion? Does love reshape itself through different criteria of humanity? Or has it never been love at all, merely an illusion from human chemistry formed through our desires?</p>
 
                                     <p>Maybe at the end of the day, love is everything Socrates said it was: timeless, unreachable, and jeweled.</p>
 
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                                     <p>To conclude this passage on both love and beauty, they are two extremely romantic and philosophical topics that I did not know much of until I did research (which is why this passage has a lot more quotes, excerpts and common beliefs than usual (I usually don't do research)). Regardless, beauty and love will continue to transcend centuries and, who knows? Maybe one day we'll finally catch up.</p>
 
                                     <p style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 2em;"><em>To be continued...</em> (next week's topic: conceptuality and perception)</p>