Engineering Human Beauty

Ravasio, Matteo

doi:10.1080/00048402.2022.2048311

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“…These approaches emphasise the importance of redefining and broadening our understanding of beauty standards to tackle the issue of lookism. Mateo Ravasio has recently introduced a distinctive overview of the current strategies and approaches proposed to combat lookism, namely the i) (re)distributive strategies and the ii) revisionary strategies [Ravasio 2022]. To Ravasio, these strategies are the current approaches to tackle lookism [2022,4].…”

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“…According to Ravasio, the redistributive approach is considered the most common proposal that calls for expanding our current beauty standards and focuses on redistributing resources, opportunities and social power by challenging beauty standards [Ibid.]. A way to achieve this goal can be done by creating policies that offer free or financially covered aesthetic procedures and cosmetic surgeries, which facilitates the inclusion of the unattractive to the beauty standards, or creating policies with affirmative measures that target combating the harms of lookism, such as banning lookism in work in employment [Minerva, 2017, Ravasio, 2022. Another approach focuses on societal dynamics that can be altered by changing the current beauty standards by promoting certain "beauty" features [Ibid.].…”

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“…In the paper "Engineering Human Beauty", Matteo Ravasio identifies two main proposed anti-lookism strategies: i) the Redistributive strategy and the Revisionary strategy [Ravasio,2022]. This section highlights the current proposed strategies as categorised by Ravasio, together with his criticism of the revisionary strategies [Ravasio, 2022].…”

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Understanding Lookism

بن عبيد

2023

مجلة الجمعية الفلسفية المصرية

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This paper explores the concept of 'Lookism', a form of discrimination based on a person's physical appearance. Several approaches have been proposed to combat lookism. These approaches have been categorised into redistributive and revisionary strategies. Redistributive approaches suggest altering the current distribution of beauty by broadening the current beauty standards, giving individuals more options to improve their appearance, or creating policies and implementing affirmative measures against appearance-based discrimination. The revisionary approaches propose that we abandon our current conception of human beauty and adopt a new notion that aligns better with social justice goals. The latter set of approaches has been subject to criticism. This paper asserts that both approaches are predominantly focused on beauty rather than addressing the core issues of lookism. It highlights the importance of redefining lookism and thoroughly understanding lookism as a crucial step towards its effective combat and making the redistributive approaches more practical. By understanding the defining traits of lookism, the behaviour of individuals identified as 'lookists,' and the environments that foster lookism-related behaviours, we can develop more precise and effective policies. This, in turn, enables us to allocate resources more effectively in the ongoing efforts to combat lookism.

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Understanding Lookism

بن عبيد

2023

مجلة الجمعية الفلسفية المصرية

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“…Moreover, unlike certain kinds of unconscious bias, which are undesirable through and through, a love of the beautiful is plausibly both desirable and a much more fundamental and deeply entrenched part of our psychology (cf. Ravasio, 2022). So even if it were possible to eliminate beauty's influence altogether, it is not clear that this would be wise.…”

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On the Importance of Beauty and Taste

Paris

2022

Roy. Inst. Philos. Suppl.

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We have all heard people say ‘Beauty is only skin-deep’, or ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’: our culture promulgates a conception of beauty as subjective, superficial, and independent of other values like moral goodness or knowledge and understanding. Yet our taste in beauty affects many aspects of our lives, sometimes playing a decisive – and often detrimental – role in areas as wide-ranging as our identity and self-esteem, our morally salient decisions, and our relationship to the environment. This presents us with a choice: we can either ignore the facts – leaving our conception of beauty unchanged and allowing our taste to influence much in our lives while either not acknowledging such influence, or perhaps seeking to reprimand it; or we can take the power of beauty seriously and seek to harmonise our taste with our values. I argue for the latter option and propose a way of bringing beauty and taste in line with what matters to us using the notion of functional beauty. Adopting this strategy, I suggest, can have a powerful – and positive – impact on our self-esteem and wellbeing, our relationship to others, as well as our attitudes towards the environment.

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“…14 14 This dynamic is not limited to bodily beauty; for an overview see the latter half of Sartwell (2022). Many of the sources I discuss here are also discussed as responses to lookism in Ravasio (2022). Ravasio groups the arguments differently and does not emphasize agency; his essay is helpful for thinking about responses to lookism and what we want from our notion of beauty. …”

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Personal Beauty and Personal Agency

Martin‐Seaver

2023

Philosophy Compass

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We make choices about our own appearance and evaluate others' choices – every day. These choices are meaningful for us as individuals and as members of communities. But many features of personal appearance are due to luck, and many cultural beauty standards make some groups and individuals worse off (this is called “lookism”). So, how are we to square these two facets of personal appearance? And how are we to evaluate agency in the context of personal beauty? I identify three ways of responding to these questions: beauty advocacy, beauty skepticism, and beauty revisionism. Advocates connect an honorific sense of beauty with personal character. Skeptics focus on beauty standards, and primarily offer a social critique of beauty standards. Some skeptics suggest embracing other aesthetic ideals – even ugliness. Revisionists critique beauty standards, but retain an honorific sense of beauty. Each position offers tools to evaluate personal agency as aesthetic agency, whether first‐personally or through our appreciation of others' appearance.

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Engineering Human Beauty

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