Yes. I think your examples require the noun to be an abstract noun, not a common noun. A man is already a man, otherwise we don't call him that. But that's a different question from whether beauty can be made more beautiful, or love can be made more lovely.
Because your question talks about beauty as a concept, not a specific object such as a man. I guess I see "making mankind as a whole more manly" as fitting the concept you're describing; but not "making Cerberus (or any other specific man) more manly".
I don't think I can add anything to the answers that are already there; or provide any useful comments. But I have upvoted both the question and Otavio's answer.
Danlei didn't get my point, and Michael thought there was no point. Pichael only eliminated some possibilities but didn't touch the problem. Only Otavio really touched it
of course, I appreciate the efforts of all of them
Like, it measures how long you've been using a site, how many interesting questions you've asked, how good your answers have been, how popular you are, and so on. So by measuring all these different things, it ceases to measure anything accurately at all.
If someone else has commented on why an answer is bad, I might downvote it without commenting. But if there's no existing comment, I will always add one.
I got downvoted twice in the same answer without comments, so I posted a comment myself saying "if you are planning on downvoting this, please comment, thank you"
but it is not so simple. because it can't be rationalized. even if you've studied psychoanalysis, when you are there, doing analysis, you do not realize what you are doing.. when you do realize, well, probably the analysis is over
the thing is.. an important factor is how much considerate you are about this person... if someone you love says you are an asshole, it will affect you differently than if an asshole says you are an asshole
usually people want to be comforted. they want to come to you and say bad things about the world and hear you confirm that s/he is the good guy and the others are bad guys,
psychoanalysis will not do that, but of course it cannot just deny what you are saying, because you wouldn't come back
it is not about saying you are wrong, but that you are probably being very unilateral
(i'm not sure if this word exists in english?)
but psychoanalysis is much more than this,
it is about an ethical duty... about not saying to you what you must do. It is hard not to.
usually we "know" what is good for the other person
are you there @Cerberus? you've been away for long
@DavidWallace I was only opposing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. I hope I didn't make psychoanalysis sound like a stupid thing. It is all about desire and fantasies... after getting acquainted with this, you realize there's nothing ordinary in the ordinary life, it is like entering an altered state of consciousness
Poem by Marc Chagall translated from the French by Neil Young
The country which is in my soul Is mine alone. I enter without a passport. Like me, It knows my sadness And my solitude. It numbs me And shrouds me with its heavy scent.
For me the gardens flower. Flowers are my creation. The streets belong to me But there are no houses, They were destroyed in early childhood. Its inhabitants roam in the air In search of a home; They dwell in my soul.
For this reason I smile When my sun is barely shining, Or I cry Like a light rain In the night.
There was a time when I wore two heads. There was a time when these two faces Covered themselves with an amorous dew And were based on the scent of a rose.
Now it seems the same To me when I return. I look ahead Towards a high portal Behind which some walls spread themselves Where faded thunder sleeps And light breaks through.
English is such an ugly patchwork of different languages; it doesn't really have any beauty of its own, unlike Russian, or Italian, or Portuguese, or Samoan.
Yeah, that particular one has always seemed a bit forced to me, especially right at the end. What does "so long lives this" refer to, for example? It's like he was trying too hard to make something fit the form of a sonnet.
in LTBdM, Hofstadter takes a beautiful French poem, and analyses how best to retain its beauty in an English translation. The fact that he comes up with so many different answers in the book reflects the fact that there really is no answer.
This poem by Shakespeare reminded me of this one by Neruda
No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego: te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras, secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
Te amo como la planta que no florece y lleva dentro de sí, escondida, la luz de aquellas flores, y gracias a tu amor vive oscuro en mi cuerpo el apretado aroma que ascendió de la tierra.
Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde, te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera,
@DavidWallace & @Tames: Hi! I was Away. Do you see how David was asking you questions about what your "beautify beauty" meant exactly? And you answered him willingly? Only with more context (c.q. explanation) does it get enough meaning to be analysable.
@Cerberus as I see it, his question was more about what would be a paralel example (an expression with the same problematic construction), if I clarifyied the "meaning", it was the meaning of the question, not of the expression, unless if you consider "making beautiful more beautiful" a context, which for me is not, it is just the expression unfolded (it lacks sense, as much as the original expression). Anyway, this is expressed in the question already.. .
the cheapest of all that I know is about 3,5 dollars, but it is awful. in average you would be paying around 8 dollars a meal (lunchtime), if you go out at night and want to eat something you'd pay that for something that is hardly a meal
I used to live in Londrina, food was much cheaper there
it seems like a regular meal here would comprise something like rice, beans, meat and some salad... i'd never cook rice and beans at the same time for myself... and i feel like i'm not getting enough nutrition
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