Why be Beautiful?

• Authors: Shatunova Tatjana M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The subject of the article is the problem of necessity of being beautiful. The beauty of the person is presented as a human value that can be achieved by the person herself/ himself. Nevertheless, beautiful people are considered to be guilty of all sins. That is why beauty needs justification. The article provides a number of arguments to protect beauty. Creating beauty is—as it is shown—an anthropological task of the human being. Hence the main thesis of the paper is: We have to philosophize aesthetic virtues, and we are responsible for being beautiful.

Keywords

EN

beauty; justification of beauty; beauty protection; aesthetic virtues

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 65-70

Contributors

author

Shatunova Tatjana M.

• Kazan Federal University, Department of Social Philosophy, Kremlyovskaya St, 18, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, 420000.