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[[Image:W(49-64) gr.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Image of a face generated by [[average|averaging]] 16 original faces, which leads to the hypothesis that the process of averaging a variety of different faces produce beauty. Armand Marie Leroi, a developmental biologist at Imperial College, London, even hypothesized that race-mixing can increase the likelihood of physical attractiveness.]]
[[Image:W(49-64) gr.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Image of a face generated by [[average|averaging]] 16 original faces, which leads to the hypothesis that the process of averaging a variety of different faces produce beauty. Armand Marie Leroi, a developmental biologist at Imperial College, London, even hypothesized that race-mixing can increase the likelihood of physical attractiveness.]]
'''Aesthetics''' is the philosophical study of the nature and experience of [[art]] and beauty.
'''Aesthetics''' is the philosophical study of the nature and experience of [[art]]/[[literature]] and beauty.
==Aesthetics and the Golden Ratio==
==Aesthetics and the Golden Ratio==
[[File:St. Patrick's Cathedral.jpg|thumb|center|270px|St. Patrick's [[Cathedral]].]]
[[File:St. Patrick's Cathedral.jpg|thumb|center|270px|St. Patrick's [[Cathedral]].]]
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== Beauty in literature and other forms of writing ==
Various novels, poems, essays, speeches, plays and other written works are both profound and eloquent. The [[Bible]], which is the best-selling book of all time, is an example of a book that is both profound and eloquent.
== Argument from beauty ==
== Argument from beauty ==