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The Beauty: From Philosophical Thought to Fashion

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This article discusses the philosophy that portrays beauty and how each philosopher theorized beauty in their narratives, namely Plato, Aristotle and Kant. The essay aims to report how beauty was initially described and what were the aspects that transformed these thoughts into a science that shaped aesthetics as far as we know it. The research moves on to the philosophy of the 20th century with authors such as Gilles Lipovetsky and Luc Ferry who were instrumental in understanding the progressive affirmation of Beauty through difference and the expression of the self. The analysis is of an investigative and exploratory nature accentuated in the process of analysis of relevant literature around the proposed theme.

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    Nietzsche’s radicalism is only imposed because, after Plato, philosophy never ceased to devalue the sensible world in relation to the intelligible world. The instrument of this discrimination was called “dialectic”. In a certain sense, the Nietzschean moment entertains itself with the negation of the Platonic-Hegelian dialectic of art, a relationship analogous to that which the Kantian moment establishes with classical rationalism. In both cases, it is about conquering or regaining the autonomy of sensibility. Luc Ferry - Le sens du Beau. Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 2002, p. 145.

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Alcantara, A.C., Romãozinho, M. (2024). The Beauty: From Philosophical Thought to Fashion. In: Cunha, J., Broega, A.C., Carvalho, H., Providência, B. (eds) Advances in Fashion and Design Research II. CIMODE 2023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43937-7_8

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