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Did he stop being ugly at the end of the story?<\/li>\n<li>What does ugly mean?<\/li>\n<li>Would the \u201cugly duckling\u201d still be ugly if someone thought he was beautiful?<\/li>\n<li>What is beauty?<\/li>\n<li>How do we decide what is beautiful and what is not?<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re ugly, are you always ugly, and if you\u2019re beautiful, are you always beautiful?<\/li>\n<li>Are the following things beautiful?\n<ul>\n<li>a sunrise<\/li>\n<li>The Mona Lisa<\/li>\n<li>a smile<\/li>\n<li>a song<\/li>\n<li>a feeling<\/li>\n<li>a thought<\/li>\n<li>a painting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If the ugly duckling believed he was beautiful, would that make him more likely to be seen as beautiful?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean to have \u201cinner beauty?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Can someone be a terrible person and still be beautiful? An extraordinarily wonderful person and be ugly?<\/li>\n<li>Is there some objective standard of beauty\u2014so that everyone in any time and place would agree that this particular person or object is beautiful\u2014or does it depend on where and when you live, and on what you think? If it depends on individual perspectives and circumstances, is beauty real or is it just something people make up?<\/li>\n<li>Why does beauty matter to us?<\/li>\n<li>What does it feel like when something is beautiful to us? 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