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title: Beauty
date: 2005-05-31T15:51:19Z
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From BBC’s new [podcasting experiment](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/) I started to listen to the Radio 4 program [In our Time](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/), specifically the one concerning Beauty. Some great concepts on the Philosophy of Beauty, and in turn Art, reality and well everythign really.

Some concepts I picked up on from the program:

> Art is created due to our desire to re-create beauty we see and experience around us. However this rasies the question about the nature of beuty, art and reality.

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> Aesthetic Beauty (i.e. sensible, perception of the five senses, via thought, objective) versus Moral Beauty (i.e. divine, abstract, via feeling, noble).

> Plato – An object is beautiful to the extent that it participates in the Idea, or Form, of beauty.

> Aristotle – Beauty is the gift of God

> Is beauty inherent in the object or simply objective, as in the beholder?

> Hegel – Beauty, Feeling, Knowledge have a rational, cognitive value. For through Religion, Art and Philosophy the members of a People can mutually recognize their feeling, beauty and knowledge. Essentially Art will dwindle in its effectiveness as we move closer to ‘reality’.