book report for Beauty

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Book report for Beauty
英语1504 宋静茹
To be honest,this long passage is too boring to read and I am sure that I will never read it if it were
not for the homework.The whole passage talks about two main aspects,one is the ways that judge
beauty which includes the summary of old ways and the writer’s own ways.The other is the
classification of beauty.Let’s talk about the ways first.
The writer concluded the old platitudes in six ways such as beauty should make people happy,beauty
is the reason why people attend to one thing possesses it. He thought although these platitudes would
help people to define things are beautiful or not,they are just not sufficient to be a means of
judgment.However,in my opinion some of these are reasonable indeed.For example,’beauty is the
reason why people attend to one thing that possesses it.’To me,if one subject is not beautiful or
attractive enough,I will not even look at it once much less attend to it.Of course I am not definitely
disapprove the writer's view,I just think his view is also kind of unilateral though I really agree with
his own beauty judging ways.One is ‘To find meaning in its object,to make critical comparisons,and
to examine our own lives and emotions in the light of what we find.’While the other is ‘The judgment
of beauty orders the emotions and desires of those who make it.’He combined rational thinking and
emotional thinking.As far as I’m concerned,one should have his or her own taste of judging beauty
not only blindly following the trend.
Now let’s come to the classification.The writer divided beauty to four parts.I think the most
expressed part is the everyday beauty.Lots of objects surround us in our life.They are of various
size,shapes or colors but maybe we have never noticed them even once. ‘It is an object of
contemplation for it’s own sake,and its significance does not reside in some independent use.’I just
can’t agree more with this sentence.Though we have neglected some daily things or objects,their
effects are non negligible.We will probably make a mess without them and till then could we realize
their importance.
As the expression I’ve mentioned in last paper,beauty can’t be made exact definition.After reading
this passage I improved my point.I shouldn’t utterly say that beauty can’t and shouldn't be defined.If
people define it by one’s real emotion,real feeling or objective critical opinions,it may bring us good
affects instead.
Though I haven’t enjoyed this book,some points the writer mentioned are really significant and
helped me a lot to understand beauty.Thank a lot for sending it to us!