Thinking – On Beauty

After reading the article of this week, please answer the following questions:

How are the statements 'This is a heavy hammer' and 'This is a red book' different from the statements 'This is a beautiful hammer' and 'This is a beautiful book'?
What is meant by the statement 'The beauty of beautiful things makes us gravitate towards them'?
What is the Promise of Hapiness that, according to Stendhal, beautiful things offer us?
Why does Nehamas state that beauty has an inherent social dimension, that the judgment of beauty is essentially social?