Lesson 5 Flashcards
• Things are beautiful because they give delight
St. Augustine
• Objects are beautiful because they are a reflection of the idea of beauty
• Plato
• Forms of beauty are order, symmetry; can be demonstrated by mathematical sciences
• Aristotle
• “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
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 than subjective.
Kant
• “The perception of beauty does 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”
Hutcheson
an error in reasoning
•Cognitive bias –
the physical attractiveness stereotype
•Halo effect
•Based on gender preference
•Facial Attractiveness
How cultural traditions shape body image
•Cultural Membership •Cultural Standards •Cultural influences