uself midterm Flashcards
believed that if beauty gave delight because it was beautiful
then it is beautiful.
- The earth occupies the lowest form of beauty, and things become
more beautiful as they possess more form and less of a void
(completely empty).
- God is supremely beautiful since only God possesses a perfect form.
- his discovery of true beauty in persons who are virtuous
St. Augustine
connected beauty as a response to love and desire
- Theory of Forms asserts that the physical world is not really the ‘real’
world; instead, ultimate reality exists beyond our physical world.
Plato
is the material stuff we see and interact.
physical realm
however, exists beyond the physical
realm
spiritual realm,
asserts that the physical realm is only a shadow, or
image, of the true reality of the Realm of Forms.
Theory of Forms
asserted that the chief forms of beauty are order, symmetry, and definiteness which can be
demonstrated by mathematical science.
- Beauty is a matter of size and order.
- He saw a relationship between the beautiful and
virtue, arguing that “Virtue aims at the
beautiful.“
- His famous “golden mean” or “golden ratio” is
applied to understandings of both beauty and
morality.
Aristotle
argued that beauty does not lie in “things” but
is entirely subjective, a matter of feelings and
emotion.
- Beauty is in the mind of the person beholding
the object, and what is beautiful to one
observer may not be so to another.
David Hume
is nothing but a bundle of
impressions and experience to that
impression is important to determine
what is beautiful.
SELF
- defines beauty as being judged through an
aesthetic experience of taste based on pleasure
and reason (cognitive judgment). This experience
must be devoid of any concept, emotion, or
interest in the object we are describing
as beautiful. Most of all, the experience
of beauty is something that we feel (brain). - He believes that our reason that invests the
world we experience with structure.
Immanuel Kant
an influential British moralist, an advocate of moral sentimentalism, and a
key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
- The idea of beauty is actually the idea of a certain experience of pleasure
that we have when we look at (external) or listen to certain things (internal
or reflex sense)
Francis Hutcheson
is a systematic error in thinking that
occurs when people are processing and interpreting
information in the world around them and affects
the decisions and judgments that they make.
cognitive bias
refers to the tendency of people to rate
attractive individuals more favorably for their
personality traits or characteristics as compared to
the less attractive.
Halo effect
refers to the sequence of physical and emotional occurrences when
someone is participating in a sexually stimulating activity such as intercourse or masturbation
sexual response cycle
considered the “love hormone” involved in our desire to
maintain close relationships.
Oxytocin
responsible for ovulation in females.
Follicle-stimulating hormone
