Why People Love Beauty So Much (Page 1/1)

Why do people love beauty so muchZhang Baotong 2019.4.21

Why do people love beauty? Aristotle said: As long as you are not blind, no one will ask such a question. The beauty is pleasing to the eye, even stunning. Human beings have developed in the process of constantly pursuing, exploring, and creating beauty. Appearance can cause people to have a halo effect, so as to generalize, which directly affects our perception and evaluation of others.

A very young baby, he doesn't know who is good and who is bad, but he just likes to let people with beautiful eyes hold him, and when he sees someone with an ugly appearance, it is like being frightened. It's the same for adults, when we see an ugly-looking person, we can't wait to stay away from him. And when we see a beautiful person, we will feel that our soul is about to be taken away by others.

Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the most influential and beloved women in American history, once said that she had a very big regret: it was that she wished she could be pretty. She was the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, and she served as the first lady of the United States for 12 years, creating the most in American history. She calls herself an "ugly duckling". On the contrary, her mother was considered beautiful. Her first words in her autobiography were, "My mother was one of the most beautiful women I have ever met." Her mother often showed her appearance in front of others, calling her young and old daughter "grandma" to describe her appearance and demeanor. She lets her guests know that her daughter is a "quirky" child. Eleanor later recalled, "My mother did her best to teach me how to behave in a way that would make up for my lack of looks, but this effort made me aware of my shortcomings." ”

Who doesn't want to be young and always beautiful? He is handsome, and it is easy for people to think that he has a series of qualities such as elegant demeanor and noble character. And we find out from movies or TV that the loved person is always a beautiful person, so we know that beautiful people are worthy of love, and beauty has become an important clue to be loved. We are all well aware of our physical defects. In order to preserve youth, in order to maintain beauty, the world spends billions or even tens of billions of dollars every year on food products, fashion, plastic surgery.

Why do we care so much about how we look? Because beauty is so powerful. Although we would think that human virtues should be kind, intelligent, and funny. However, we are still attracted and moved by beauty. No matter how much we oppose it or pretend to be immune, we simply cannot resist and escape when beauty works its magic on us. Zhu Xi, the sage of the Song Dynasty, who was "coarse and lightly clothed, with a broken donkey and a broken car, and a rational and detached heart", seriously discriminated against women and women, but it was also difficult to refuse the beauty of women.

Aristotle said, "Beauty is more important than any letter of introduction." "It's unfair, but it's true. Who of us doesn't like to be young and pretty? Attach a picture of a beautiful writer to an article, and people will think that it is more creative and wiser writing. What would it do if an essay could be accompanied by a picture of a beautiful woman? Our sensitivity to physical beauty is not something we can control at will, but something we are born with.

Beauty will make us more attractive, more noticed and favored by others. Beautiful-looking students are given high marks by teachers, and good-looking children are more likely to be tolerated when they make mistakes. Good-looking young people are more likely to be hired by businesses and bosses. Whether a painter, a writer, or a student, the more outstanding their looks are, the easier it is for them to be recognized for the fruits of their labor, because they are greatly helped by their looks, and they can receive additional praise for it. Social psychologists call this phenomenon the "halo effect."

Beauty is comforting and intoxicating. Sensitivity to beauty is a universal human nature. Someone even described, "When you see a beautiful woman walking in through the door, you almost stop breathing." "Experiments by psychologist Judith Longlos have shown that even small babies like to look at beautiful faces. So, when we meet a supermodel, watch a TV show, open a fashion magazine, we are first attracted to a beautiful face.

For us, beauty is still a mystery. But it contains features that we are familiar with. Many studies have shown that beautiful women have thin chins, large eyes, and shorter-than-average distances between their mouths and chins. Throughout human history, people have endured countless pains and sufferings in order to obtain beauty, but the pursuit of beauty has always been so strong and irrepressible. If you want people not to be interested in beauty, it's like telling them not to eat and not to fall in love.

People's perceptions of beauty are contradictory. On the one hand, beauty is indeed contagious, and on the other hand, it is considered to be the source of impotence and slavery. Many scholars claim that beauty has no practical meaning, because it neither explains or solves anything, nor can it teach us anything.

Beauty is not an absolute belief, beauty is to find a delicate balance and harmony in the relative contradictions, and it is a sublimation process obtained through the precipitation of thought and the refinement of time after the combination of an individual's feelings and external things. Santayana said that beauty is the pleasure of objectification, Bell said that beauty is a meaningful form, Croce said that beauty is the expression of success, and Zhu Guangqian said that beauty is the unity of subjectivity and objectivity.

Recognized beauty is rare, and the vast majority of them are mediocre-looking, but he or she can still be loved or socially popular because beauty is not only about appearance. "We must understand beauty, or we will be enslaved to it forever," Etekoff said. "If you want to be smart, kind, and funny, that doesn't mean you can't try your best to look pretty. There is no reason to feel guilty about being moved by the power of beauty. It touched us all.

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