I am taking philosophy and the teacher asked a "seemingly" hard question. "What is beuty if it varies? Is there such a thing as "beuty"? From where does the idea of beutiful come? because a picture drawn crucked might be beutiful for some but not for others." We went in circles for about an hour but no conclusions were made. What do you all think?
She asked us to explain the quotes "First you discover the visible things then the eye that sees it" & "Can it be that the natural things that we don't think about not really natural because we don't think about them at all?" I know an answer but asking for more view points wont hurt right?
Between Socrates "The human knows all on the inside, just needs to bring it out" & Descartes "I think, then exist" Who is right? Allknowing or always learning? The quotes I translated from another lenguage so don't expect to find them. Thanks a lot for any opinion.
2007-03-26 05:58:30 · 7 answers · asked by Gus B 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's an ideology. A basic set of principles founded on a certain idea. The ideas about it can change, but the principles that make it what it is by definiton do not. That's how you can. Look each word up in the dictionary, and as long as your opinion is aligned with the defintion of what it is, you're on the right track.
2007-03-26 06:06:34 · answer #1 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok ....Philosophy students will usually accept some scientific data to support their conclusions..so here's some.
Sociologists believe that the human concept for beauty is firmly grounded in the primitive brain
It is based on symmetry..the more symmetric the facial features and the body proportions..the more genetically healthy the individual. This apparently triggers a response from the brain as "beauty" .
This in turn, creates desire...which is a desire to perpetuate the species in and through healthy individuals
So beauty is more than just in the eye of the beholder.
2007-03-26 07:00:08 · answer #2 · answered by Eartha Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitions will vary from philosopher to philosopher. I would recommend re-reading Plato and Aristotle on these points and take seriously the idea of some kind of "participation metaphysic" as a means of adjudicating an answer that grounds our subjective perception of justice and beauty (and the contraries) in an objective truth. It might be helpful to apply Cardinal Newman's idea of the "illative sense" in response to the predicament of subjectivism introduced by your instructor.
2007-03-28 06:46:09 · answer #3 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I wanted so much to answer this question, but someone else answered it for me..
"Sociologists believe that the human concept for beauty is firmly grounded in the primitive brain
It is based on symmetry..the more symmetric the facial features and the body proportions..the more genetically healthy the individual. This apparently triggers a response from the brain as "beauty" ."
That was said by a lady up there....
I only have to add.. that this so called primitive way of seeing thinks changes with what our culture, family, and own experience makes us think.... Idea all around us (because we are all thinking and reasoning beings) trigger changes in our very basic and primitive mind and our idea of living and surviving....
The prove of it, is people that commit suicide, they have changed their primitive mind to think dying is what is needed rather than surviving....
The same for this case of beuty... It is "firmly grounded in the primitive brain" liike the lady up there said, and it is about our "animal insticts"... but this primitive brain can change now that we challenge logic and the way nature works...
We have come out of the nature rules... and now surviving doesn't mean anymore being healthy... or in this case finding a healthy partner... We have made our minds evolve in matters of society and human interecations... to the point that we don't look anymore just for healthy partners... but rather a partner that will be able to make us HAPPY.... and that partner might be obese, or blind, etc....
If we were affected by natural selection and were like any other creature in Earth we wouldn't care about being happy, but rather wanting to survive, therefore it would be imposible for us to pick a blind person as a partner rather than an athlete...
Am I making my point clear? seems to me now that I am going around and around the same point... but it is important and interesting to fully comprehend the concept of the uniqueness of humans to challenge the natural rules and ways, and to go beyond wanting to survive... we might be born with this surviving insticts to their maximum, but society have evolve to a point that it makes our own basic primitive thinking evolve in a matter of years and make us see further than just the plain "survival of the fittest" or "for the survival of the specie" kind of thing..
Hope that helps!
CHRIS
2007-03-26 08:04:38 · answer #4 · answered by CRA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-19 14:17:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot define any of these things even to your own satisfaction, much less anyone else's. Why? Because if you did you would be dead to new experience and learning...
and would flunk your Philosophy course into the bargain.
2007-03-26 06:34:36 · answer #6 · answered by Tyler's Mate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All things are relative, thus, as your viewpoint changes, so does your understanding. The eye only relays images, it is the brain that must understand them.
2007-03-26 06:07:21 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋