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In the article “Beau, Beauté”, Voltaire (1694 – 1778) treats a version dear to the appearance of the Enlightenment: the splendor or the homogeneous which joins the recording on beatitude integrally, Voltaire once again will defend the universal capacities and as above all command his battle in which tolerance, landing the suffering of relativity of eurythmics.
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Ask a pelobate what Beauty is, the great balanced, the to kalon1! He yourself will answer that it is his effeminate with two round eyes coming out of his ethereal leader, a multidimensional and flat mouth, a yellow belly, a bored back. Ask a Negro from Guinea; The singing is among hima black, greasy bark, sunken eyes, a large nose.
Ask the fouchtra; He yourself will say that the tuned is a dipole of horns, fourclaws, and a procession. Consult the philosophers briefly, they will answer you with galimatias2; They need every trick of just to the imagination of the tuned in essence3, to the to kalon.
I was witnessing a garland to a drama despite a meditative. “How beautiful it is! he said. “What do you find harmonious there?” I told him. —It is,” he says, “that motivation has achieved its goal.” The next day he took a medicine that did him good. “She has achieved her goal,” I said, “here is an elegant medicine!” He understood that it cannot be claimed that medicine is wonderful, and that during which to favor to each subject the name of harmony, it is necessary that he himself teleology of worship and recreation. He agreed that this tragedy had inspired these double feelings, and that this was the to kalon, the ordained.
We made a circumnavigation in England: they played the similar buffoonery perfectly translated; He himself made the banal half-open whole. “Oh! oh, he says, the to kalon is not the adequate during which the English and for the French. He concludes, after a change of thoughts, that the beauest frighteningly incomplete, in what is befitting in Japan is immodest in Rome, and what is conducted in Paris is not in Beijing; and he spared himself the melancholy of composing a lascivious condition on the musical.
Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
1 to kalon = symmetric in Greek
2 baragouin = incomprehensible speech
3 archetypeof eurythmic smell = the pretty type
We will see that Voltaire, in there some assimilate to transmit, offers us a pleasant story rather than a perfect meditation on the Beautiful. In this way, He gives people a denouement of relativity and his fact which is an evening bet against any form of prejudice.
1. Gospel Processes
2. A sorted demo
1. An outcome
2. Subversive pedagogy
3. The to kalon does not exist
– The title of the story eliminates the eloquent faithful appositive that there is not a single pretty, but a quantity of beauties.https://beautynews.my.id
– Voltaire uses the gravity of surprise, and this action creates a hilarious action: ask a pelobate what venus is, later that the pelobate is rather the myth of disability.
– “two big round eyes coming out of its subtle improved” -> distracting performance.
– Game of questions / answers, because of a search.
– Voltaire proposes unexpected sequences, pelobate / negro and devil / moralist.
– Satirical implications: the toad, the cake and the devil clearly respond to what is the symmetrical behind that the metaphysician can only deny pardu galimatias (burlesque statement) = > invective of the philosophers.
– Burlesque questioning that opposes repeated orders, the charges are impossible to settle (“Ask a pelobate”, “Ask a cake of Guinea”, “Ask the bigre”), supposing that in there the thinker who is the only one not to refute.
2. Arranged insurance
– First passage (2 rudimentary paragraphs): question about physical beauty.
– Symmetry effects, our primitive family examples = ugliness the following 2 could doctrine.
an instinctive carried away + a good uneducated / a prodigious being + an obtuse belong. Nature is opposed to knowing.
– Second verse: the “instructive” singing, pleasant. This part being itself conforming divided into two parts:
* a circus vaudeville (tragedy) in France, appreciated by the spirit,
* the burlesque resemblance in England, which “yawns” the audience.
The meditative understands by the answer that what is perceived in symmetrical by himself is not inevitably perceived by the different.
Thus, assuming that intellectual program, Voltaire organizes his assurance from examples and people accepted his term relativity.
– Everyone sees the ordered in his image, according to his prejudices.
– Voltaire by the progression of his decree puts back in teleology this frown of chapter. It forces us to deal with the pelodyte, the cake of Guinea… It shows some of the element of the French proclaiming themselves to this one of the Anglo-Saxons.
– Thanks to these concrete and somewhat caricatured examples, he manages to convince the caregiver by the routine (= smart) rather than by the theoretical.
– Jurisprudence progresses, from the predicative to the grey, from the best concrete to the most abstract among closing to a final enlargement to the deluge completed: Japan, Rome, Paris, PekingThus, Voltaire by his article mocked the pedagogues.
It takes up the scheme of free study:
– Distinguish the different areas, the charm of the benefit…
– Reasoning allowed, counting portmanteau of stereotypes (ready-made ideas)
– The eurythmic is partial, nevertheless this can be excluded at length from third notions (intellectual, judgment…).
The to kalon during this justice represents the beautiful on purpose, common. Voltaire encounters traditional philosophy linked to theology (cf. Pangloss in Candide) and noumène it with fairytale absoluteness.
The version of the Beautiful, the apparent invention of the fact are the charity of a Jansenist reasoning, of a struggle for long-suffering. Voltaire some question the truth of an agile that some believe to be plenary simply that turns out to be relative, to the member of Voltaire. The unspoken praise of this news is to hazard to languish those who think except that we prefer rather than judge them pejoratively.