YouTube video: 95% of your behavior is primate behavior | Frans de Waal - from The Well
A Natural History of Human Morality - by Michael Tomasello
TEDx Talks - Own your face | Robert Hoge | TEDxSouthBank
In the article "Nietzsche - Your conscience is no saint", Nietzsche states that "Earlier societies (he is rather unspecific about which exactly) did not see things this way; for them, it was the successful, beautiful, powerful aristocratic people who were valued as good, while the rest were bad, in the sense of weak, deficient, or just not up to much."
The YouTube video above clearly illustrates that non-beauty does not equate to bad. Conversely, beauty can be superficial, manipulative and does not equate good.
However, there seems to be a natural desire in us to love cute and beautiful things, animals and people, and repulse against the opposites. People want to be liked, accepted and the pursuit of beauty seems natural too.
How do we reconcile our rational analysis that beauty does not equate to goodness and our natural desire for beautiful things?
What do philosophers say about beauty?
The following Wikipedia page discusses the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty
A pdf file of the Wikipedia article (8/8/23) is here.
Philosopher Zone - Beauty: aesthetic or moral ideal? Guest: Heather Widdows, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick UK
ABC RN Sunday Extra -
#EverydayLookism - https://www.everydaylookism.com/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Beauty: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty/
TED - Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Cameron Russell
道德經 - 第四十八章 為學日益，為道日損。 損之又損，以至於無為。無為而無不為。 取天下常以無事，及其有事，不足以取天下。 Daodejing - Chapter Forty Eight (Forgetting knowledge) Those who devote ...
