Beauty & Personal Care
‘Beauty’ is probably one of the few terms that might plausibly maintain such totally opposed interpretations. Beauty here is conceived—perhaps explicitly in contrast to the classical aesthetics of integral components and coherent whole—as excellent unity, or certainly because the precept of unity itself. Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work individually, and as to the whole, the association of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical end result. Kant equally concedes that taste is fundamentally subjective, that each judgment of beauty is based on a personal experience, and that such judgments differ from individual to…