The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117300 Message #2527444
Posted By: Bill D
30-Dec-08 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: A Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever...
Subject: RE: A Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever...
ummmm.... some 'muddy boots' would not be allowed by society to trespass many places in public. I wonder what JS Mill would say? (I'd suspect he'd be too transfixed to comment....)
Now, those boots (and their contents) exemplify the debate over how to define 'beauty'...(and, for that matter, joy). They focus attention and demand 'response', but that image is NOT what *I* would choose as an example of any sort of beauty....the boots detract from potential beauty.