duszek wrote:So if there is a beautiful rose on the moon and nobody to see it then the rose´s beauty does not exist.
How about a beautiful jewel which sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when the ship Titanic collided with an iceberg.
Has the jewel stopped being beautiful because no conscious human being is there to notice it ?
Now you are asking "Does beauty have to be perceived to exist?". The appreciation of beauty certainly requires perception, but the intrinsic existence of beauty, possibly not. Your two examples also bring up the question "Does beauty exist in nature, man's creation, or both. I've seen many beautiful things and scenes in nature, I have also seen many man made objects that are beautiful. Many man made objects that were ugly, but fewer natural things that were not beautiful in some way. One thing I would like to see someday is a polished, uncut diamond. Would it's natural form be as beautiful as the cut diamond?
