Chapter 2: The Physical Self & What Philosophers think About Beauty Flashcards
It is a very powerful tool in reinforcing cultural beliefs and values.
Media
Its nature is one of the most enduring and controversial themes in western philosophy.
Beauty
It was traditionally among the ultimate values along with goodness, truth, and justice.
Beauty
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.”
David Hume
“The judgment of taste is therefore not a judgment of cognition, and is consequently not logical but aesthetical, by which we understand that whose determining ground can be no other subjective.”
Immanuel Kant
“The perception of beauty does not depend on the external sense of sight; however, the internal sense of beauty operates as an internal or reflex sense. The same is the case with hearing: hearing music does not necessarily give the perception of harmony as it is distinct from the hearing.”
Francis Hutcheson
In Egyptian hieroglyphic, this term is derived from the root “sesh” which means “to write, to engrave.”
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It is an error in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or any other mental process that is often a result of holding on to one’s preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information.
Cognitive bias
It refers to the tendency of people to rate attractive individuals more favorably for their personality traits or characteristics as compared to those who are less attractive.
Halo effect
A Greek word referred to as being gorgeous to look at, and hence being a good person.
Kaloskagathos
It is generally defined as how one thinks and feels toward one’s body.
Body Image
It was coined by William James and defined as the number of successes a person achieves in the domains of life that are important to him or her, divided by the number of failures that occurred in those areas.
Self-esteem
In 1960s, its defined by behavioral scientists in terms of an attitude concerning one’s worth as a person.
Self-esteem
It is about how you value yourself and how you feel others value you.
Self-esteem
It is how you view your physical body, whether you feel you are attractive, and how you feel some other people like your looks.
Body Image
