The ontology of beauty has been relatively neglected in both metaphysics and aesthetics over the past century or more, and nowhere more than in the literature devoted to feminist critique of contemporary beauty ideals. Superficially, this is puzzling. In this paper, I explain why the omission makes sense, and I argue for the conclusion that beauty is a contextually conferred social property. Central to my argument is the claim that this conception of beauty fits well with important points of widespread agreement in the feminist literature on beauty norms.

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美是一种社会属性

在过去的一个多世纪里，美的本体论在形而上学和美学中都相对被忽视，尤其是在致力于女权主义对当代美理想的批评的文献中。从表面上看，这令人费解。在本文中，我解释了为什么省略是有道理的，并且我论证了美是环境赋予的社会属性的结论。我论点的核心是声称这种美的概念与女权主义文献中关于美规范的广泛共识的要点非常吻合。