humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:09:59 -0700, Mark N
wrote:

>Malrassic Park wrote:
>
>> "It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to
>> the earth." - Anthem
>
>Your question is based on a false dichotomy, which is rejected by
>Objectivism. Beauty is neither intrinsic nor subjective. Instead, it is
>*objective*!
>
>Beauty is the result of the interaction of the conscious perceiver with
>the object of his perception. The perceiver will judge an object to be
>beautiful if and only if it satisfies the *objective* criteria for
>beauty that are set out in Rand's theory of aesthetics. Or so I assume. :-)

In the long passage I quoted, Rand says that beautiful things would
exist in the absence of anybody to evaluate them as beautiful. But
that idea doesn't mesh well with the Anthem quote in which the eyes
grant beauty to the earth.

Nobody can seem to answer this point, they only talk around it.

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