Breitsameter C
Kath.-Theol. Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Klin Monbl Augenheilkd. 2013 Jan;230(1):56-8. doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1328108. Epub 2013 Jan 23.
Ovid's "De medicamine faciei feminae" contains the astonishing sentence "Culta placent - all that is artificial is beautiful". In his "Éloge du maquillage" Baudelaire, buidling on Ovid's argument, states that first culture as picture and construction of beauty brings forth the truth of Nature and claims that cosmetics that allow errors of beauty to disappear artificially produce the true fulfillment of human nature. The present article looks into the historical roots of the body images that have emerged in modern times and attempts to derive structural devices for an ethical assessment of the potential we have to enhance human nature.
奥维德的《女性面部的药物》中有这样一句惊人的话：“精心修饰——一切人为的东西都是美的”。波德莱尔在其《化妆颂》中，基于奥维德的观点指出，首先，作为美的描绘与构建的文化揭示了自然的真相，并宣称能人为消除美的瑕疵的化妆品实现了人性的真正圆满。本文探究了现代社会出现的身体形象的历史根源，并试图推导出一些结构性手段，以便对我们提升人性的潜力进行伦理评估。
