“Beautiful” – together with “graceful” and “pretty,” or “sublime,” “marvelous,” “superb,” and similar expressions – is an adjective that we often employ to indicate something that we like. In this sense, it seems that what is beautiful is the same as what is good, and in fact in various historical periods there was a close link between the Beautiful and the Good
But if we judge on the basis of our everyday experience, we tend to define as good not only what we like, but also what we should like to have for ourselves. There is an infinite number of things that we consider good, a love requited, wealth honestly acquired, a refined delicacy, and in all these cases we should like to possess that good. A good is that which stimulates our desire. Even when we consider a virtuous deed to be good, we should like to have done it ourselves, or we determine to do something just as meritorious, spurred on by the example of what we consider to be good. . . . From “HISTORY OF BEAUTY” Umberto Eco (Author)
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Malik Raoulda said:
Je vous souhaite une bonne et agréable journée paisible.
Madeleine Defawes said:
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Günter Klaus said:
Wünsche noch einen schönen Nachmittag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))
Nora Caracci said:
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But if we judge on the basis of our everyday experience, we tend to define as good not only what we like, but also what we should like to have for ourselves. There is an infinite number of things that we consider good, a love requited, wealth honestly acquired, a refined delicacy, and in all these cases we should like to possess that good. A good is that which stimulates our desire. Even when we consider a virtuous deed to be good, we should like to have done it ourselves, or we determine to do something just as meritorious, spurred on by the example of what we consider to be good. . . . From “HISTORY OF BEAUTY” Umberto Eco (Author)