Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Plato and Socrates

Many great philosophers like Plato and Socrates have pondered on many questions relating to beauty and youth. What is true beauty? What does it truly mean to be youthful? These types of questions have been discussed many times throughout the course of history. Today I am going to discuss these same topics.

I think youth is a key component to beauty in many ways. Many things often described as beautiful contain youthful qualities. Youth is fresh and ebullient. Youth has the energy to move on and keep fighting. Many people view youth as being a young person. It is not the outside that matters but the inside that most counts. If a young person has no spirit or enthusiasm he or she is not being youthful. On the other hand an old man can be considered youthful if he has the energy to keep living a joyous life. In this form even older people can posses the beauty of youth.

Many people have discussed on what the true form of beauty is for a human. I think the idea of the most beautiful person is inside each one of us. This image is constantly changing as we grow older and learn more and more about true beauty. At a younger age we think of perfect beauty as something often seen in actresses or models. As we grow older that slowly changes to the form of perfect beauty that reflects our past experiences and encounters. I believe that in order to be truly beautiful one must also be kind on the inside. My idea of the absolute perfect form of beauty is something that is impossible to be described in words and incomprehensible to other people. I cant even picture it in my head. If I ever encounter this perfect human I will feel it in my heart and everything will make sense.

2 comments:

RocAway said...

I understand wat you meant when you said you could not describe what a beautiful person would be. We have never met a perfectly beautiful person so it is hard for us to know.

Joshua's message to the people said...

To answer your question on how i think a perfect person looks like is similar to Aowei's comment. What i would like to his comment is you have might of seen movies that portray the perfect person well thats not the perfect person because that is just categorizing someone which leads to my way of explaining how people judge other people and that just creates stereotypes. And thats what i wanted you to tell you and i loved the way that you put that you couldn't describe the perfect person.