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https://sites.bu.edu/ombs/2012/11/12/defending-platos-renunciation-of-art/

It wasn’t so much a problem for Plato that art had such a grip on the cultural norms and moral fibers of a society, but rather that the artists themselves had no understanding of what they were representing, and thus inspired corrupt and destructive morals. In the eyes of Plato, the artist or poet was typically not the ideal moral character in any society, and thus should not have been in charge of dictating moral grounds or developing cultural norms. A second complaint Plato had about the role of the artist was that even if they were generally a moral and civilized human being, they were falsely representing reality through their art, something which Plato very much opposed to and which undermined a central theory in Platonism.

On 5/25/2020 at 11:45 PM, Matt! said:

 

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1 Abbey Lee Kershaw
2 Abby Champion
3 Abby Neff
4 Agnes Akerlund
5 Aksana Samy
6 Alena Blohm
7 Alexa Reynen
8 Alexandra Martynova
9 Alexis Rupp
10 Alina Timo
11 Aline Weber
12 Alyssa sky
13 Amanda Nørgaard
14 Amber Davis
15 Ana Beatriz Barros
16 Angela Kajo
17 Anja Rubik
18 Anna Christine Speckhart
19 Anna Fischer
20 Anna Maria Jagodzinska
21 Anna Mila Guyenz
22 Anna Selezneva
23 Anne Vyalitsyna
24 Anouck Sanders
25 Arizona Muse
26 Ashley Graves
27 Auguste Abeliunaite
28 Aurelia Gliwski
29 Barbara Fialho
30 Baskin Champion
31 Becca Hiller
32 Behati Prinsloo
33 Bojana Krsmanovic
34 Bree Smith
35 Bridget Cooley
36 Britt van der Voort
37 Brittni Tucker
38 Brooke Perry
39 Camilla Forchhammer Christensen
40 Camille Rowe
41 Candice Swanepoel
42 Carmen Kass
43 Caroline Brasch Nielsen
44 Caroline Kelley
45 Caroline Marie
46 Caroline Winberg
47 Catherine McNeil
48 Cato Von Ee
49 Cayley King
50 Chané Hüsselmann
51 Charlene Hogger
52 Chase Carter
53 Chloé Lecareux
54 Christine Sofie Johansen
55 Clara Alonso
56 Clara McSweeney
57 Constance Jablonski
58 Crista Cober
59 Daphne Krooneman
60 Daria Werbowy
61 Delilah Parillo
62 Devon Windsor
63 Dewi Driegen
64 Dionni Tabbers
65 Edita Vilkeviciute
66 Eliza Cummings
67 Elle Britain
68 Ellie Ottaway
69 Elsa Hosk
70 Elyse Taylor
71 Emily Deyt-Aysage
72 Emily Grace
73 Emma Barley
74 Eniko Mihalik
75 Erin Heatherton
76 Evelyn Rose
77 Fabiana Semprebom
78 Farah Holt
79 Faretta Radic
80 Fernanda Liz
81 Flavia de Oliveira
82 Frederikke Sofie Fable-Hansen
83 Freja Beha Erichsen
84 Frida Gustavsson
85 Georgia "Gigi" Barber
86 Georgia Fowler
87 Ginta Lapina
88 Hailey Clauson
89 Hana Jirickova
90 Hana Soukupova
91 Hanalei Reponty
92 Hanna Brooke Sanders
93 Hanna Edwinson
94 Hedvig Palm
95 Hilary Rhoda
96 Hollie-May Saker
97 Irene Hiemstra
98 Isabel Scholten
99 Isabeli fontana
100 Isabella Oberg
101 Isabelle Mathers
102 Jefimija "Mia" Jokic
103 Jemma Baines
104 Jessica Burley
105 Jessica Lee Buchanan
106 Joanna Halpin
107 Joline Heitmann
108 Jordan Simek
109 Julia Almendra
110 Julia Frauche
111 Julia Stegner
112 Julia Yaroshenko
113 Kadri Vahersalu
114 Kara del Toro
115 Karlie Kloss
116 Karmen Pedaru
117 Kasia Struss
118 Kate Li
119 Kate Valk
120 Katelyn Byrd
121 Kati Nescher
122 Katie Kearney
123 Katja Olympia
124 Katsia Zingarevich
125 Kendra Spears
126 Kianna Stupakoff
127 Kim Riekenberg
128 Kirstin Kragh Liljegren
129 KJ Skorge
130 Kristin Kagay
131 Kristina Grikaite
132 Kristina Mendonca
133 Lada Kravchenko
134 Lais Navarro
135 Lais ribeiro
136 Lara Stone
137 Lauren de Graaf
138 Lauren Mellor
139 Liu Wen
140 Livy Poulin
141 Lorena Rae
142 Lotta Kaijarvi
143 Lotti fuchs
144 Lucette Van Beek
145 Lucia Dvorska
146 Luna Bijl
147 Madison Headrick
148 Madison Tabeek
149 Madison Teeuws
150 Mae Van Der Weide
151 Magdalena Frackowiak
152 Maggie Rawlins
153 Maja Mayskär
154 Marisa Papen
155 Maritza Veer
156 Marlijn Hoek
157 Marloes Horst
158 Martha Hunt
159 Martha Streck
160 Mary Lynn Neil
161 Maryna Linchuk
162 Masha Novoselova
163 Maya Stepper
164 McKenna Berkley
165 Megan Moore
166 Melanie Kroll
167 Meredith Hennessy
168 Meredith Mickelson
169 Mia Hewitt
170 Milous Sluis
171 Mini Aden
172 Monika Jagaciak
173 Myf Shephard
174 Nadejda Savcova
175 Nadine Leopold
176 Nanna Breinbjerg
177 Nastya Zhidkikh
178 Natalia Roth
179 Natalia Siodmiak
180 Natalie Jayne Roser
181 Nerize Peyper
182 Neta Alchimister
183 Nimue Smit
184 Noor Schauten
185 Ondaria Hardin
186 Polina Kouklina
187 Rianne ten Haken
188 Rozanne Verduin
189 Sahara Ray
190 Samantha Ahrens
191 Samantha Basalari
192 Samantha Gradoville
193 Samantha Laigle
194 Sanna Backstrom
195 Sasha Luss
196 Scarlett Leithold
197 Sofia Resing
198 Stef Van Der Laan
199 Sui He
200 Sun Feifei
201 Susanne Knipper
202 Tanya Katysheva
203 Taylor Howard
204 Terese Pagh Teglgaard
205 Tia Mallia
206 Toni Garrn
207 Tori Praver
208 Valentina Zeliaeva
209 Valerie van der Graff
210 Victoria Lee
211 Vita Sidorkina
212 Vlada Roslyakova
213 Willow Hand
214 Yael Shelbia
215 Yumi Lambert
216 Zienna Williams
217 Zoe Mantzakanis

 

2 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

Thanks for this.  It can also be done on EXCEL.  

No worries. You're right, but that requires some Excel skills (I have none) 

+ Megan Roche

“logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end”

@Matt!  what models do you like from my list?

9 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

@Matt!  what models do you like from my list?

Here's the ones I know and like: 

 Abby Champion
 Alexis Rupp
 Amanda Nørgaard
 Ana Beatriz Barros
 Anne Vyalitsyna
 Barbara Fialho
 Baskin Champion
 Behati Prinsloo
 Camille Rowe
 Candice Swanepoel
 Clara Alonso
 Constance Jablonski
 Devon Windsor
 Dionni Tabbers
 Edita Vilkeviciute
 Elsa Hosk
 Emily Grace
 Erin Heatherton
 Faretta Radic
 Georgia Fowler
 Hailey Clauson
 Hilary Rhoda
 Isabeli fontana
 Isabelle Mathers
 Jessica Lee Buchanan
 Karlie Kloss
 Kendra Spears
 Kim Riekenberg
 Lais ribeiro
 Lorena Rae
 Maggie Rawlins
 Maja Mayskär
 Martha Hunt
 Maya Stepper
 Megan Moore
 Meredith Mickelson
 Nadine Leopold
 Natalie Jayne Roser
 Neta Alchimister
 Noor Schauten
 Sasha Luss
 Scarlett Leithold
 Sofia Resing
 Sui He
 Toni Garrn
 Victoria Lee
 Vita Sidorkina
 Willow Hand
 Yael Shelbia

"snobs, whose behaviour lies at the heart of our anxieties about our status. Though certain friends and lovers will promise not to disown us even if we are bankrupted and disgraced (on a good day, we may even believe them), it is on a diet of the highly conditional attentions of snobs that we are generally forced to subsist."

"In the word’s earliest days, a snob was taken to mean someone without high status, but it quickly assumed its modern and almost diametrically opposed meaning: someone offended by a lack of high status in others. It was also clear that those who used the word were doing so pejoratively, to describe a process of discrimination they found regrettable and worthy of mockery

it has grown common to describe as a snob almost anyone who practises overt social or cultural bias, who declares one kind of person or music or wine to be plainly better than another. Snobs comprise – according to this understanding – all those who insist too loudly on a scale of values.
Yet it might be more accurate to limit the meaning of snobbery to a particular way of resolving the question of who and what to respect. The distinctive mark of snobs is not simple discrimination, it is an insistence on a flawless equation between social rank and human worth."

The company of the snobbish has the power to enrage and unnerve because we sense how little of who we are deep down – that is, how little of who we are outside of our status – will be able to govern their behaviour towards us. We may be endowed with the wisdom of Solomon and have the resourcefulness and intelligence of Odysseus, but if we are unable to wield socially recognized badges of our qualities, our existence will remain a matter of raw indifference to them."

"Snobs can through time be found ingratiating themselves with a range of prominent groups – soldiers (Sparta, 400 BC), bishops (Rome, 1500), poets (Weimar, 1815), farmers (China, 1967) – for the primary interest of snobs is power, and as the distribution of power changes, so, naturally and immediately, will the objects of their admiration."

Given their exclusive interest in reputation and achievement, when the outer circumstances of their acquaintances alter, snobs are prone to make some sudden tragicomic reassessments of who their closest friends might be."

"The problem is compounded by newspapers. Because snobs combine a weak capacity for independent judgement with an appetite for the views of influential people, their beliefs will, to a critical degree, be set by the atmosphere of the press."

"Thackeray proposed that the obsessive English concern with high status and aristocracy could be traced back to the country’s papers, which daily enforced messages about the prestige of the titled and the famous and, by implication, the banality of the un-titled and the ordinary.

To try to understand the problem, it is perhaps only ever fear that is to blame. Belittling others is no pastime for those convinced of their own standing. There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they aren’t good enough for us.

The fear flows down the generations. In a pattern common to all abusive behaviour, snobs generate snobs. An older generation inflicts its own unusually powerful association between modest rank and catastrophe, denying its offspring the layer of emotional bedding that would grant them the inner ease to imagine that low status (their own and that of others) does not neatly equate with unworthiness, nor high status with excellence."

"Before mocking anyone who bought such a piece, it would perhaps be fairer to wonder about the wider context in which this kind of furniture was made and consumed. Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

Crushes: they happen to some people often and to almost everyone sometimes. Airports, trains, streets, conferences – the dynamics of modern life are forever throwing us into fleeting contact with strangers, from among whom we pick out a few examples who seem to us not merely interesting, but, more powerfully, the solution to our lives. This phenomenon – the crush – goes to the heart of the modern understanding of love. It could seem like a small incident, essentially comic and occasionally farcical. It may look like a minor planet in the constellation of love, but it is in fact the underlying secret central sun around which our notions of the Romantic revolve.
A crush represents in pure and perfect form the dynamics of the Romantic philosophy: the explosive interaction of limited knowledge, outward obstacles to further discovery – and boundless hope.
The crush reveals how willing we are to allow details to suggest a whole. We allow the arch of someone’s eyebrow to suggest a personality. We take the way a person puts more weight on their right leg as they stand listening to a colleague as an indication of a witty independence of mind. Or their way of lowering their head seems proof of a complex shynessand sensitivity. From only a few cues, you anticipate years of happiness, buoyed by profound mutual sympathy. They will fully grasp that you love your mother even though you don’t get on well with her; that you are hard-working, even though you appear to be distracted; that you are hurt rather than angry. The parts of your character that confuse and puzzle others will at last find a soothing, wise, complex soulmate.
In elaborating a whole personality from a few small – but hugely evocative – details, we are doing for the inner character of a person what our eyes naturally do with the sketch of a face

We don’t particularly notice it day-to-day, but the stories our culture presents us with concerning love and relationships – via films, songs, novels and adverts – have a major subterranean influence on how we think and feel. They shape our sense of what is normal and hence of what is troublingly abnormal; they seed certain hopes and expectations and foster particular opportunities for disappointment, indignation or alarm