The shiver of beauty

In this chapter we learned about what beauty signifies and how beauty most of the times gives us pleasure. Also in this chapter we learned about the opinion of many philosophers, the one which I agree the most with is Kant; he gives us many interesting points about beauty.

One of which I like the most is when he says that "the pleasure produced by beauty is the only truly disinterested and unconstrained pleasure we can experience". I like this statement by Kant a lot because I very much agree on what he says, I do believe that the attributes beauty gives us are not only disinterested but pure, this meaning that the pleasure we obtain from beauty is unique and spontaneous. Unlike the other pleasures, we do not obtain the pleasure from a necessity we have because as Kant says the thirst for beauty does not appear to correspond to any concrete need, either of our senses or of our reason. Finally, I think Savater gives us these quotes from Kant in order for us to value the importance of beauty, not meaning physical beauty, but the beauty one observes in nature and in all those things we can't exactly describe why we found them beautiful.

To wrap this comment, I think that beauty is one of the greatest things we can obtain from nature since I believe that in a way beauty "humanizes us", by obtaining a disinterested pleasure by a sunset for example, we seem hypnotized by such wonder that as the chapter is called, lets us experience the shiver of beauty.