[quote]orion wrote:
Rational Gaze wrote:
Why would anyone use Greek statues as a measure of physique? Certainly there is a classical ideal that has an aesthetic quality, but it’s like saying we should compare modern cinema with Greek tragedies.
Because beauty is eternal?
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Beauty portrayed artistically, based on ideals cultivated by an entirely different society to ours, without any particular basis in reality. We don’t have to subscribe to an ancient notion of beauty, any more than we have to agree with Plato’s political ideas.