"2. If something beautiful has something more to offer, are some of the things beautiful about it outside the scope of human imagination?"
I think I was misunderstanding Nehamas when I wrote this question. If we find something beautiful, in Nehamas' opinion, we see or envision a promise of happiness that has yet to be fulfilled. Maybe the thing we are trying to discover about it is hard for us to understand. What I find interesting about this definition of beauty is that it can be applied to non-artifacts. Many find pregnancy and childbirth to be beautiful, and it is not (arguably) a work of art. There is so much to understand and learn about pregnancy, no one person can learn everything about it in their lifetime. We might not understand it all, but I don't think its outside the scope of human imagination.
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