Beauty

This is one of the most important subject for a human being. Every human needs the sense that he is beautiful or that they need to be surrounded by beauty. This is well explained by Savater and a great addition for this chapter is Kant. I agree with most of the things he says. For a example what I just said about beauty being a necessity. But in this chapter it is also explained that there is no purpose for beauty. So it is kind of contradictory, which is something confusing for most readers.

The animals don't need this thing of beauty, it is only a need for humans. Only humans know it and it is something very important for us. The example that Savater gives about a pyramid being beautiful from the outside. But when you see how it was constructed you start to see that it was built by slaves and a lot of deaths happened there. So it might not be beautiful because of how it was constructed. There is also something we talked in class about the rules of beauty. If we want to be beautiful we have to follow certain rules. I think this is wrong because people have different perspectives and something not be beautiful for them.

Going back to the statement of there is no purpose for something being beautiful, I think that is true. For example when someone invented the plate to eat or the glass to drink. They decorate it, for no reason. You can't drink more if it has decorations, or you can't have a better life if it's decorated. So it doesn't help a lot to have your plate beautiful.