BEAUTY?


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Authors

  • Haluk Naci GÜLALP

Keywords:

Beauty, Idealism, Frankfurt School, Like

Abstract

Idealist philosophy mainly rooted in Socrates (Plato) has reached its peak by Kant and Hegel.
This, in essence, totally subjectivist outlook considers the right one is only ‘I’ and reality is what that
‘I’ perceives. Frankfurt School, unfortunate to have been founded after Marx, not being able to
neglect him have chosen to distort Marx claiming to be Hegelian-Marxists, -not less meaningless than
saying monist-pluralist- and have tried to blend idealism and historical materialism which are
mutually exclusive. Interestingly this still prevails mainly in contemporary French names deepening
the confusion and requiring explanatory interpretations which contribute only to higher complexity.
Beauty is not an entity/a monad per se and is nothing but a qualifying noun form of an
adjective which expresses ‘like’ that which stems from the relation with nature and cultural value
judgments which entail no right for a claim of personal/subjective preferences to be assumed valid
and universal.

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Published

2018-02-17

How to Cite

GÜLALP, H. N. (2018). BEAUTY?. JOURNAL OF AWARENESS, 2(Special 1), 249–258. Retrieved from https://journals.gen.tr/index.php/joa/article/view/251

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