The beauty of social things and phenomena in real life. Together with natural beauty, it is called realistic beauty. Including behavioral beauty, linguistic beauty, spiritual beauty, environmental beauty and so on. It comes from human social practice, so human beauty occupies a central position in social beauty. Marx said: "Social life is practical in essence."

2. Features

The essential feature of social beauty is that it is the direct embodiment of people's essential strength in social things.

② Social beauty is the unity of beauty and goodness, which is closely related to certain social utility. The content of social beauty is more important than form.

③ Social beauty is true and stable.

④ Social beauty is related to certain political ideals and moral concepts, and political stance and moral and ethical concepts affect the aesthetic judgment of social things.

The significance of social beauty:

In reality, man is the sum of all social relations. Material relations based on production relations restrict people's political relations and ideological relations. People's aesthetic relationship is bound to be subject to material conditions, political conditions and other spiritual conditions, and changes and develops with the changes and development of these conditions.

Social beauty must have the characteristics of economy, politics, culture, nationality and class of that era. For example, the pastoral scenery of the natural economy in feudal times is different from the urbanized towns and villages under the conditions of market economy. The quietness and solemnity of temples and churches, the pious hearts of believers and their indifference to life are all different from the noise and excitement of dance halls, and from the natural feelings and pursuit of life of young people.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Social Beauty