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beauty and terror

Is it possible that the ideal of perfection is flawed from the root and contradicts human nature? We experience happiness, beauty and pleasure in a more complex way than theories of salvation and utopia often suggest. Pleasure and pain are not the opposites they might appear to be. Physical pain is often associated with sexual [...]

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mathematical beauty

“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.” Aristotle
The human fascination with beauty and symmetry is rooted in our biology. We interpret the healthy as beautiful and are drawn to it from an evolutionary urge. Nature’s mathematical models of perfection, such as the golden ratio [...]

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