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“Beauty is Dead, and we have Killed Her!”

“Beauty is Dead, and we have Killed Her!”

On the Death of the Objective Feminine Ideal: An Appeal to the Ethics of Aesthetics

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“Aphrodite spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and in it desire and in it blandishing persuasion which steals the mind even of the wise.” – Homer

Morals, values, and ideals are guiding principles dictating the ethics and integrity of a population. Over the y…

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