Why the vision argument is a very good one!

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I will get back to you pocaras, but I wanted to ask Jo something: Do you believe the personhood of a person has a type of beauty?

I don't know, MK. Personhood is both a political and a mental concept, whereas beauty, aural and visual, tends to be biological in origin. However, due to our capacity to abstract and such, concepts can have a habit of straying from their roots. I don't consider abstract institutions normally to be the object of aesthetic pleasure, yet I find the American system of government beautiful. I'd have to see more on what you mean by personhood and in what sense beauty, and give it some thought. It would help to know in what sense you mean it, as its very easy to equivocate about such things if one isn't clear. If by personhood you mean personality, then I'd give a qualified yes; if you mean something else by personhood, you'd have to explain what you mean by it. Why do you ask?

ETA: After some thought (listening to music), it occurs to me that aural beauty may be more linguistically based than purely biological (if one can make that distinction), so between aural and visual and linguistic beauty, there is great potential for blurring of the lines. As language operates more or less at the subconscious level (away from introspection), its influences are hard to survey.