Do you think that BEAUTY IS ONLY a human concept?

Question: Do you think that BEAUTY IS ONLY a human concept!?
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The operative word in your question is "concept!."
A "concept" is an abstraction!. "Brutes abstract not!." (Locke)

The peahen does not conceptualize beauty and then go looking for it!. It is instinct!. Man has no such instinct!. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," -- remember!?

So the answer is YES; as a CONCEPT is it human only!. The animals may "feel" beauty as an emotion!. We do that, too!. We see a painting of splendor and we are awash with emotion!. I personally find myself awash when I listen to Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony!. Let a peahen try to "conceptualize" a symphony!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

This sounds like a real deeply thought out question!. Are you really intelligent!? But now that I think about it!.!.

Maybe it is only a human concept!. When the world was created, just itself!.!. everything was in its most natural state; therefore, everything was beautiful!. If everything was beautiful, then nothing was ugly!. So there couldn't really be a beautiful or an ugly, therefore, how can beautiful exist!? Everything was just itself!. Not categorized!. Until humans, correct!? Other animals and creatures don't seem to choose their habitat or their lives out of what is or isn't beautiful!. Perhaps beauty is only a human concept!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your question, it seems, is asking if animals appreciate beauty!. We can't really say, not knowing their perceptions!. But I think we can all agree, that animals, left to their own devices, appreciate their freedom of movement and pursuing the ideal of their own specie such as mastery over their territory, over their harem in some cases, and in most, the passing on of their seed to perpetuate their image of existence!.
Beauty to other species is freedom of action and movement and the natural order of things which we, the humans, are, to a great extent denying them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Beauty is allure, magnetism, attractiveness!. The Spirit of beauty enthrals, enchants, bewitches, holds us in grip of awe!. We are temporarily motionless, destabilised, struck speechless!.

Beauty is tender, its power holds our heart in its palm, our mind within its thoughts, our senses as one, and we become beautiful!. Beauty takes our soul and we hold its captive with our desire as beauty holds us reverenced in its sublime power, its ethereal mystery, its enigmatic aloofness whilst coursing through our veins and the fibre of our soul!.

Be Beautiful, Brilliant, Bountiful !.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!.'

I guess you can argue that no, it is not only a human concept, but humans are the only species capable of expressing it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you are talking about beauty as humans percieve it, yes, but if you are talking about if animals have a concept of beauty, in a sense, but not in the same manner that we use the word or meaning!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A beautiful flower,
The sun rising, the sun going down!.
The sea!.
The Mountains!.
Snow!.
Leaves in autumn!.
Green grass!.
grasshopper,
shell,
flowers again!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.

It cannot be a human concept only!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

no because all throughout the animal kingdom, mates are chosen due to secondary sexual characteristics!. the word may be a human construction but the idea of sexual preference due to appearance is fundamentally animalistic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Obviously not, if the peahen did not select her mate based on the beauty of the peacock, the peacock would not have that ridiculous set of tail feathers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

no, a snset is beautiful and its not human!. beauty can be about phisical apperience and about menatal apperience as well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm not sure if beauty is and animal concept, but cleanliness is definitely a concept that a lot of animals have!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes!. beauty is only in how you see things!. some people think flowers or waterfalls are beautiful!. other do not!. Its all in how you look at things!Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, because male peacocks have to poof out their feathers and look 'manly' so the female peacocks can think they look sexy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com