| "Talking about beauty is talking about women." | | | | half." |
| Probably that is right, but guess what? Men can | | | | On the other hand, a psychologist in the |
| also be beautiful, even more beautiful than | | | | University of Texas at Austin, said: "beautiful |
| women. Talking about beauty interests | | | | women must possess a waist-to-hip ratio of |
| everybody. You can either be beautiful or not. | | | | about 70%," (Singh 343) to be considered |
| But how do we really define beauty? Beauty has | | | | beautiful. For psychologists, if a woman has this |
| so many definitions that some would shock you | | | | kind of ratio it usually indicates that she is capable |
| and some would interest you. Understanding the | | | | of bearing a child. |
| meaning of beauty is one of the key themes in | | | | In the early pre-Socratic period, this theory of |
| the philosophical discipline known as aesthetics, | | | | Pythagoras can also be found. He said that: "there |
| which is " a branch of philosophy dealing with the | | | | is a strong connection between beauty and |
| nature, creation and appreciation of beauty." | | | | Mathematics that if the same objects are |
| There is also a common theory made by men | | | | proportioned, the object appears as more |
| that "it is the appearance of things that are good." | | | | attractive." This also implies that people who have |
| This theory has been supported by many | | | | symmetrical and proportional bodies according to |
| examples. This theory, however, is based only on | | | | the golden ratio which are considered and |
| the physical aspect of a thing. It does not follow, | | | | recognized as more attractive than those who |
| however that when a thing appears good, | | | | are not. |
| physically that is, it is also better in many aspects. | | | | St. Augustine, like Plato, believed that, "beauty of |
| It may be true when judgment is based on | | | | a work of art ." In the medieval times the arts |
| external appearance - but what about the inner | | | | were mostly that of the Madonna's, angels and |
| beauty of a person that cannot be seen? This | | | | other biblical structures. |
| inner beauty may include qualities of a person as | | | | Beauty fits the mind with a system of ideas. It |
| in being kind, generous, or humble. One factor in | | | | fills the soul with series of concepts: it sows |
| considering beauty is symmetry, to name a few | | | | nature with seed; and it provides matter with |
| that "the other half of the face must have | | | | forms. In the end, it's not how beauty is defined |
| regularity and balanced proportioned with its other | | | | that matters. It's what's in the heart. |