Why is their beauty so appealing to humans? If this beauty has been evolved then for which purpose?
What’s the benefit of so much beauty in nature like ocean waves, sunset, flowers, etc? Is this the objectivity or universality of beauty that everyone can find the stars in the sky and sunset beautiful?
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Ultimately this question seems to strike at a much deeper and older question, namely “What is Beauty?” It’s a question philosophers have been puzzling over since Ancient Greece and probably well before. There are an abundance of theories and explanations, ranging from psychological to spiritual to philosophical, and in my opinion most of them are not wrong, but none of them tell the complete story.
A concrete explanation might tell you we find flowers beautiful because of their bright contrasting colors and a high degree of symmetry and patterns. Another explanation might tell you that even though flowers evolved specifically to attract pollinators like birds and bees and bats, it ends up spilling over to humans because all living creatures share some features in common. Yet another might tell you that flowers evoke memories of nature and youth. Yet *another* might tell you that flowers have great significance in many cultures and societies. There’s no end to the possible explanations, and like I said I don’t think any of them are totally wrong, but they all make up parts of a larger whole.
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