In our AESTETA Class, we had a report about the famous philosophers. For the students to know what is really beauty all about and also for the class to have a background of some philosophers. Each group who was assigned in the philosopher was asked to give their background, philosophy and what is beauty for them. As the group present in the class, the student gathered some ideas and inspiration in making a concept that will show the real meaning of beauty in the field of architecture. They are groups who presented in the class and one of them is our group. We are the first group to present in the class and I am with my partner, Steven Vilbar. We presented the background, philosophy and the meaning of beauty for Aristotle and Plato. Let’s just summarize our report and go straight to point and purpose of the report.
The beauty for Plato is that everything is beautiful and no one can say that it’s not beautiful. In short all of as has an opinion on how does the object looks like. That opinion was respected that is why Plato said that everything we see on this world is beautiful. Objects are beautiful in their own way. And that is beauty for Plato while for Aristotle; beauty is something produces many good things especially if it has order and symmetry. He likes an object if its design is arranged properly, the object that has calm in the eyes that is beauty for Aristotle. It only means that the entire thing that was made by God is beautiful because God made this world with order and purpose. And that is our was the philosopher that was assigned to us with my partner. Let’s go with other philosopher assigned to the other group.
Beauty for Immanuel Kant is perfection. All the things that are perfect for you is already beautiful because it’s your own opinion. No one can say that its not perfect for you because you have your own mind that gives you ideas and vision how that real thing s was imagined.
Karl Marx was philosopher who defines beauty as a nature. I guess we have the same idea about beauty because I do not regret that I love nature and everything you see from it is beautiful. For him anything that you see and everything that was made out of is beautiful. Nature is the number material and most beautiful in this world because all was may possible. God made this world with full of inspiration and love that is why we can feel those thing and that is one of the reason why we said that its beautiful.
Saint Augustine of Hippo visualizes beauty as love. Everything behind love is beautiful. Love can give you a big impact in imagining and visualizing things because their is a feeling that you are the only who can define it.
Other things that was reported by the is the Rationalism and Empiricism. Rationalism is a source of knowledge and justification while Empiricism is a source of knowledge by senses and experiences.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said that ball in human are beautiful. I agree with him because we all know that no one in this world is ugly. We are all made by God and God has a reason why he made our looks like this. All person in this world is equal that’s why they are no reasons why to hide you face from the public. We should not be shy, We should be proud of what we are because we know in our self that they reason and purpose behind it.
Gilles Deleuze . For him beauties can indeterminate time, destiny and others. We can say that it’s true especially when we say “Love at first site”. You can feel that your time stops because that person gets your attention and like you’re being pulled by him/her. I can say those things because I base it from my experiences.
And last is Thomas Aquinas. He defines beauty as perceived and pleases. He is trying to say that we can only define or say that it’s beautiful if we are going to analyze it by using our senses. The point is we have to use our mind to what is really beauty for us. We are only the one who can say that it’s beautiful for us.
After a long day for this report to be completed at the end of this the class now understand what beauty really mean to this world is.
This report makes a big value for as architecture student because we will be ask by our future clients to make a structure that is beautiful for us and also for them. These philosophers can be our inspirations in defining beauty for our clients.
What I realize after all this report is that beauty is everywhere; we just can’t see it because our mind is focusing of what we want. We don’t have time to see other things that is waiting for us to look at it and say that it’s amazing and beautiful. We should be open in everything we see because this world is amazing just the way God made it. We can enjoy this world by having an equality and in that way while we are enjoying everything we see, we don’t know that everything that is happening is beauty.
