Unpacking the Self (Beauty) Flashcards
What are the two most debated views about beauty?
1) Beauty is objective
2) Beauty is subjective
This was traditionally among the ultimate values along with goodness, truth and justice.
Beauty
Enumerate all the philosophers with an objective view of beauty
St. Augustine
Plato
Aristotle
This philosopher asked whether things were beautiful because it gave delight, or whether it gave delight because it was beautiful. He believed the latter
St. Augustine
This philosopher connected beauty as a response to love or desire. He asserted that beauty exists in the realm of Forms.
Plato
This philosopher asserted that the chief forms of beauty are: order, symmetry, and definiteness that can be demonstrated through mathematical sciences.
Aristotle
Enumerate the philosophers with a subjective view of beauty
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Francis Hutcheson
He said that beauty exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
David Hume
He believed that beauty is not logical but aesthetical
Immanuel Kant
He believed that the internal sense of beauty operates as an internal or reflex sense.
Francis Hutcheson
This 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
Also known as the physical attractiveness stereotype, it refers to the tendency of people to rate attractive individuals more favorably for their personality traits as compared to those who are less attractive.
The halo effect
These sculpt our faces, which results in sex-typical facias features of adult men and women.
Hormones
This is defined as how one thinks and feels towards one’s body
Body Image
In 1800, he presented self-esteem as the number of successes a person achieves in the domains of life.
William James