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Beauty is Objective
The Golden Mean
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The Golden Mean theory made it very clear in terms of the components that make something beautiful. Eventhough I support beauty being subjective, but this "ingredients" of beauty in the theory matched well with the current day Elements and Pricniples of art, which I agreed with.
Plato (427 - 448 BCE)
Plato believes that all humans were born with knowledge, but when our souls were trapped in our bodies at birth, it was all forgotten. Plato proposes we used to have Knowledge of Forms (ideas). There was also the Form of Beauty, indicating that there is such thing as perfect beauty objectively.
Plato's theory is very interesting, since he proposes a theory that has to do with our souls and what he believes we were born with. Instead of just claiming beauty is objective because the beauty of a subject does not lose its value if a person claims the subject is not beautiful, Plato claims that we were born with the ability to define what true beauty really is but it was lost. Personally, I do not agree with this theory.
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St. Augustine (354 CE)
St. Augustine believe that beauty is created by god. Therefore artists and connoisseurs of outer beauty draw their judgments from the above.
I do not agree with this theory, beauty can be judged differently depending on one personal preference. A man-made object can get closer to its own idea of beauty.
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