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Originally Posted by Fallen Angel
Do you think beauty is subjective i.e. in the eye of the beholder, or is it objective?
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It is subjective rather. But I don't think there's such a sharp difference between subjective and objective. There is a difference between true and false though.
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For example, I don't think many folks would say Charlize Theron is ugly.
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She is not so beautiful either, in my subjective opinion.
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Nor would many folks say the hunchback of Notre-Dame is beautiful.
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He looks like a poorly requisited actor rather than anything else.
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Yet, on the other hand, some European folks find African/Asian women ugly while African and Asian men find them beautiful, or even other European men.
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Miss Bahamas here is beautiful to my eye:
Miss World 2007, Contestant Pictures
But most women with wildly foreign looks are not attractive to me.
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What do you think, maybe a bit of both?  :
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Somewhat a false dilemma perhaps, but well worth talking about.
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West