Di Stefano Nicola
FAST - Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technological Practice, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2017 Oct 25;5(10):e1523. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000001523. eCollection 2017 Oct.
Two biases affect the idea of beauty often embodied in aesthetic surgery. The first one is that the living body is the sum of different parts; the second one claims that beauty results from the sum of beautiful elements. Taken together, these 2 biases explain most of the aesthetic surgery procedures, in which a localized improvement is supposed to impact on the whole body image. In this article, I put into question these 2 problematic assumptions, showing that Western and Eastern aesthetics, on one side, and philosophical reflections, on the other side, support a different conception of beauty. In particular, an alternative idea that opens to authenticity and imperfection and focuses on the living body rather than on the mere anatomical surface is proposed here as a more adequate concept of beauty for aesthetic surgery.
两种偏见影响着常体现在整形手术中的美观念。第一种是活体是不同部分的总和；第二种认为美源于美的元素的总和。综合起来，这两种偏见解释了大多数整形手术程序，在这些程序中，局部改善被认为会影响整体身体形象。在本文中，我对这两个有问题的假设提出质疑，表明一方面西方和东方美学，另一方面哲学思考，支持一种不同的美观念。特别是，这里提出一种向本真和不完美开放、关注活体而非仅仅解剖表面的替代观念，作为整形手术中更合适的美观念。
