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26 October: The Philosphy Perspective


Random: Temporary Graffiti! (Edited from http://double-glazing-windows-uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/misted-glass-225x3001.jpg)


Source: http://files.myopera.com/ForestFloor/albums/648490/dec-13-08-window.jpg

Notes:
Beauty cannot be proved by appeal to...
- Technical principles OR Canons
- Canon = principle, rule, yardstick, measure. Always linked to a body who decides what the canon is. Canonical (works accepted as part of a canon) works themselves become the new canon, the exemplars for new others.
- There wil always be a canon in all types of creative work.

WHERE DOES BEAUTY RESIDE?
1. Individual?
-In the eyes of the beholder, in the mind
2. Object?
- Beauty being an inherent and intrinsic quality ofthe object
- In the object's appearance? Function? Essence?

On the issue of beauty and tastes:
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Extreme subjectivity ______________________________________Extreme objectivity
(Subjective to history? era? culture?)

Another point of view:
Psychological necessity
- We are condigured in our psyche/mind that some things may give rise to pleasurable beauty.
- We tend to gravitate towards things that are beautiful.
- The element of beauty helps us in our lives. (E.g. in natural selection, reproduction of offspring with highest survival rate)
- Is sexual selection innate or is it a decision or a choice?

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Hui Ning
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Symmetry, Patterns and Beauty of Nature options 2009

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