Beauty is Objective

Some Arguments for Subjective Beauty:Desired Female Figure in the Eyes of Men Has Changed Drastically Over Time: These quotes from an article I found explain this pretty well: "Be it a female fashion model or an ordinary woman, there has been a significant change in their figures over the period of time." and "Beauty standard is something that has fluctuated greatly over the period of time." [1] The article goes on to explain that, in the medieval period, obese women were preferred. In Victorian England, an hourglass figur was preferred. In the 1920s, a washboard profile was preferred. This leads into the modern day, where thinnness is the desired body type by the vast majority of men. If beauty were objective, ideal body type in women would not fluctuate so much, since objective beauty would be free from individauls' biases.The Different Periods in Music Sought Entirely Different Things: The major periods of "classical" music are Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th/21st Century. The Medieval period held that Perfect 4th intervals were beautiful, for instance, while all the following periods preferred 3rds to build their music. The Medievals also used many musical modes, while now we almost exclusively use the Ionian and Aeolian modes, now called Major and Minor. Composers in the Classical period referred to the prior period as "Baroque", because it comes from the Hebrew for "misshapen pearl". This meant that, although the Baroque did some good things, which makes it a pearl, it was far too frilly and disordered, making it misshapen. The Classical embraced order and consistency, which stemmed from the philosophical Empiricism and Rationalism of the 18th Century. In reaction to the Classical, the Romantic period came along, which valued human emotion and passion, not order, in their music. Each period felt that what they did was most beautiful; and since the ideologies of the various periods often came into direct conflict, as I have described, it is clear that what people considered beautiful drastically changed in each period. This also points to a subjective beauty, since it seems that musical beauty exists in people's minds.These are just a couple of many, many examples of differing experiences of "beauty". Another example is art, which follows many of the same trends as music, with reactions and counterreactions between the different movements. All of these examples show that what people experience as beautiful varies massively over time and with the culture, meaning that beauty depends on the subject and not the object of thought, making it subjective.Response to Opponent:To be honest, I don't really know what you are saying. Correct me if I'm wrong: you're saying that, if you are running a modelling show, you want the girl with knowledge to help you run it, and the physically attractive one to actually be in the show.This is valid, but I don't really know how this applies to whether beauty is objective or subjective. You said:"overall beauty are judged by "objective", and its difference "objective" depend of situation."This seems like a non sequitur, and I don't quite know how you got this from your hypothetical. You say:"let be true in real, everyone have their own beauty of taste, for me knowledge is beauty."Isn't this essentially further proof that beauty is subjective? If everyone has a preferred "form" of beauty, that means that beauty depends on the subject's individual opinions/biases/preferences, and this exactly fits the definition of subjective that I gave.Sources:[1] http://ezinearticles.com...