Each paragraph offers a particular viewpoint based on a distinct perspective. Your task is to read each one closely and identify which worldview it expresses. Pay attention to what it values, how it sees reality, and what it dismisses. Let the underlying assumptions guide your recognition. Answers below.
Twelve Worldviews
Materialism
Spiritism
Realism
Idealism
Mathematism
Rationalism
Psychism
Pneumatism
Monadism
Dynamism
Phenomenalism
Sensationalism
What Is Beauty?
Viewpoint 1
Beauty is what floods the body with pleasure. It’s not an idea or a spirit — it’s color, taste, texture, sound. The feel of silk, the scent of jasmine, the curve of a well-built chair — these are real. You don’t need a reason to call something beautiful. If it delights your senses, if it makes you pause and feel, that’s enough.
Viewpoint 2
Beauty is harmony in form — a symmetry of ratios, a balance of proportions. Whether in nature, architecture, or music, beauty emerges when elements relate in precise and elegant ways. It’s not a matter of taste; it’s structure. What pleases us reflects deeper laws — golden means, geometries, sequences. We feel beauty when our minds recognize this inner order, even if we can’t explain it.
Viewpoint 3
Beauty is the shimmer of the spirit breaking through the veil. When you see something truly beautiful, it’s not just form — it’s a message from the higher world. It’s a memory of something sacred. That moment of stillness, of reverence — it’s not caused by light or color, but by something eternal pressing gently into the visible. All beauty is spiritual revelation in disguise.
Viewpoint 4
Beauty is never general — it’s always particular. What moves one person may leave another cold. That’s because beauty arises through the individual’s unique experience. You see what you are able to see. Each soul shapes the world anew. What we call beauty is often the moment when something in the outer world aligns with the truth unfolding inside us — a private correspondence.
Viewpoint 5
Beauty is the world’s way of reminding us that it’s meant to be more than it is. It’s never just surface — it’s the outer shape of something higher trying to shine through. A truly beautiful thing points beyond itself — to harmony, purpose, truth. Even if we can’t name it, we feel it. Beauty isn’t passive — it’s a call to become more.
Viewpoint 6
Beauty is the experience of appearance in perfect balance. It’s not in the object, but in the way it shows itself. A moment, a glance, a pattern of light — they present themselves, and something within us says “yes.” Beauty can’t be stored or proven. It happens. It reveals itself as a phenomenon — not a fact, not a theory, but a happening between world and witness.
Viewpoint 7
Beauty is clarity — an idea perfectly expressed in form. A poem, a face, a building becomes beautiful when it presents its purpose without confusion. There’s logic in every graceful gesture. True beauty doesn’t hide in mystery; it reveals the coherence of thought made visible. It is not chaos or extravagance — it is the triumph of reason over the rawness of nature.
Viewpoint 8
Beauty is movement made visible. It’s what happens when energy flows in a way that reveals purpose. A dancer in midair, a thunderstorm breaking, even a rising flame — these carry beauty not because they’re calm, but because they move with power and grace. Still beauty is only half the story. True beauty pulses with life. It pushes, it transforms. It’s force, not just form.
Viewpoint 9
Beauty is what strikes us as fitting and clear in the world as it is. A tree shaped by wind, a mountain’s shadow at dusk — nothing added, nothing imagined. There’s no need to invent ideals. The world offers plenty. To find beauty is to really see what’s already there, without distortion. It’s the moment something simply appears, true to itself, and we recognize it as right.
Viewpoint 10
Beauty is where soul meets soul. It’s not in the object itself, but in the resonance it awakens within. A face is beautiful because of what it expresses — longing, joy, sorrow — not just how it looks. We recognize beauty when something outside us stirs a hidden feeling inside. It’s a silent conversation between inner lives. Without soul, beauty is hollow.
Viewpoint 11
Beauty is arrangement — the pleasing result of form, symmetry, proportion, and sensory appeal. We’re drawn to it because it stimulates the brain in predictable ways. Flowers, faces, sunsets — they all activate our biology. There’s no mystery to it. What we call beauty is simply the result of physical order interacting with perception. No need to search for deeper meaning when chemistry explains the awe.
Viewpoint 12
Beauty is the presence of a living force. It’s not static; it breathes. A beautiful moment or form carries something active, something willing. You sense it — as if behind the color or sound, there’s a being doing something. When we encounter real beauty, we don’t just admire it — we feel addressed. It compels us toward reverence, not by charm, but by spiritual vitality.
Answers
11. Materialism
3. Spiritism
9. Realism
5. Idealism
2. Mathematism
7. Rationalism
10. Psychism
12. Pneumatism
4. Monadism
8. Dynamism
6. Phenomenalism
1. Sensationalism
