Characteristic Beauty Essay

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Social control refers generally to societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behavior in an attempt to gain traditionalism and agreement to the rules of a given society, state, or social group. The social group Naomi Wolf writes about in “The Beauty Myth” is women. The tradition demanding to be applied is the weight or size of a woman is the typical beauty. What is being determined is whether a woman is beautiful or not, and what are the factors of beauty. The beauty basically decides how women live and do not live. Wolf compares it to the German Iron Maiden. In “Plato’s Concept Of Justice: An Analysis”, Dr. Bhandari introduces what Plato believes is justice. He says that Plato articulates that there is three parts to a human organism. The three parts are reason, spirit, and appetite. Plato says that one who has these elements and they all should not interfere with each other. Bhandari states: Human organism according to Plato contains three elements-Reason, Spirit and Appetite. An individual is just when each part of his or her soul performs its functions without interfering with those of other elements. For example, the reason should rule on behalf of the entire soul with wisdom and forethought. The element of spirit will sub-ordinate itself to the rule of reason. Those two elements are brought into harmony by combination of mental and bodily training. They are set in command over the appetites which form the greater part of man's soul. Therefore, the reason and spirit have to control these appetites which are likely to grow on the bodily pleasures. These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other elements and usurp the dominion to which they have no right. When all the three agree that among them the reason alone should rule, there is justice within the individual. ( Bhandari 3) Plato would consider the beauty
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