Beauty With the Loss of a Sense.

My question is: How does someone who is blind judge beauty? What is beauty to them?

The best way to answer this is purely speculation, because I am not blind nor have I lost my sight. Therefore I do not actually know how a blind person might see beauty. However, it is well known that when one sense is lost the others become stronger. This means that with those remaining senses they can still differentiate whether something is aesthetically pleasing or not. 

  They can say that warm homemade cookies taste better than year-old spinach. (Keeping in mind of course that beauty is subjective entirely.) Those who are blind can judge beauty at a whole other level. They can do this through the sense of touch as well. They would be able to say that a fuzzy blanket feels better than a cactus - although someone may see it the other way as well. They can also tell that a symphony sounds nicer than nails on a chalkboard.  Of course, this is pure speculation; I am not absolutely positive that this is indeed how someone who is blind judges beauty. However, I do believe that they do too have such ability. I would imagine that to them beauty means quite a great deal because they do not judge traditional beauty through their eyes like others. 

   

   The matter of someone who has lost their sight is different. If with age or by disease or accident an individual loses their sight, they still have in their mind what they once saw and thought of as beautiful. If they used to believe that gardens and flowers were beautiful they kept the compacity to see such things in their mind, making it so they can still judge beauty upon their own subjective opinions.