From a philosophical perspective, Kant, in Observation on the Feeling of Beautiful and Sublime , tackles beauty, through the view that women are identified by their beauty, while men first are viewed with respect to their intellect. His ideal beauty is a woman who has a paralytic mind as he believes that a “woman who has a head full of Greek . . . might as well have a beard.” In this view, a woman can only think at the expense of her femininity.
Plato, too, analyses beauty in Symposium from an objective point of view, according to him, the ideal beauty is an institution of forms determined through the involvement of owning a specific model feature. The shape of the body is …show more content…
Rather, she has been depicted only from minor sides and stressing much on the physical traits at the neglect of her being an independent human being to be equated with the man and dealt with accordingly. Literature and fine art are supposed to enlighten the human intellect and mirror beauty as it pops up, instead of shaping it to become nonsense beliefs. In literature we have imagined how beauty is, it might be the long black hair, the luring smell, full lips, or the pretty face. All depends on the writer’s taste. But in art we have seen how the beautiful sight designed perfectly, artists choose women as subject to posture, where they praise puffy shape, golden hair, pointed nose and rosy cheekbones. Their ideal is not distinguished by physical appearance, but on how it seems. Therefore, they have seen the charm of women in their nudity and how sexy they are determined the percentage of beauty they