beauty

BEAUTY

The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states in Article 2 : Everyone is entitled to all rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

The most powerful critique of the beauty comes from the women’s movement. In their view women’s interest in beautification are contributing factor in the oppression of women. Make up is a symbol of this oppression. Women’s narcissism impoverishes her instead of enriching annihilates herself. Beauty is no substitute for hard work; and that make up can substitute for creating a work of art. Beauty is political. Therefore, beauty in this view is not goodness, but evil; not an investment but a waste; not truth but a lie, as the satirist had always said; not wisdom but stupidity; not fun but political; not life but dangerous to life and health; not freedom but a trap; not a solution but a major social problem.

What about natural beauty?

body

THE BODY

The body is the tomb of the soul – Plato

Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit – Saint Paul

The human body may be considered as a machine – Descrates

The body is what I immediately am…I am my body - Sartre

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the body as : The physical or material frame or structure of man or of any other animal; the whole material organism viewed as an organic entity.

What ‘the whole’ defines? Sartre define that the body simply is the ‘frame or structure’ of ‘man’ or animal, the body is the self. Descrates define that the body as same as a machine. Saint Paul define that the body it is also and even primarily spiritual. Now to at present on the range of modern construction, what is the body?

The body parts such as breasts, thighs, lips, eyes, heart, belly, navel, hair, penis, nipples, anus, brain, guts and balls and also much more have imposed layers of ideas, images, meanings and associations on these biological systems which together operate and maintain our physical bodies. Our bodies and body parts are loaded with cultural symbolism, public and private, political and economic, positive and negative, sexual, moral and often controversial, and so are the attributes, functions and state of the body and the senses. Height and weight, eating and drinking, making love, gestures and body language, even various diseases, colds or AIDS, are not simply physical phenomena, they are also social. Therefore, the body and the senses are socially constructed in various ways by different populations, as are the various organs, processes and attributes of the body. The body is not a ‘given’, but a social category with different meanings imposed and developed by every age, and by different sectors of the population. And the last the body is the prime symbol of the self, and the prime determinant of the self.

According to those description its we have more question what the body need for symbol of the self, and determinant of the self. Same questions what defines of beauty, health, good clothe or dress, and personal performance and what needs for all of them. At present, there is no consensus on the meaning of the body and, in a pluralistic society, no consensus can be expected. Construction reflect the values not only of the culture, but also of the sub-culture, and of the specific individuals, and they are everchanging.