09/01/2022
The philosophical interest in beauty began with the first registered philosophers. Beauty was considered an essential component of a good life, so the main considerations were what it is, where to find it, and how to incorporate it into life. How beauty was perceived was influenced by other philosophical views of the author - metaphysical, epistemological and ethical - and such views reflect the historical and cultural position of the author. For example, beauty is the manifestation of the divine on earth, to which we respond with love and adoration; beauty is the harmony of the soul, which we achieve by cultivating feeling reasonably and restrained; beauty is an idea generated in us by certain objective features of the world; beauty is a feeling that can nevertheless be cultivated to match its object; beauty is an object of judgment through which we implement social, comparative and intersubjective elements of cognition, etc. Such views of beauty not only reveal basic philosophical beliefs, but also reflect a positive contribution to understanding the nature of value and the relationship between reason and the world. One way to distinguish between beauty theories is according to the concept of the human being that they imply or imply, for example, when they fall into a continuum from determinism to free will, despite unfounded notions of compatibility. For example, theories at the latter end can create a sense of genuine innovation and creativity in human endeavor, while at the other end of the spectrum, authors can view beauty as an ecological trigger for consumption, reproduction, or conservation for the benefit of humans. individual. Treating the experience of beauty as somewhat deliberate characterizes the theory of beauty until the 20th century and since then, mainly in historically inspired works on beauty. However, the relationship to beauty as an affect or sensation has always had its representatives and today is most noticeable in evolutionary descriptions of beauty (although not all evolutionary explanations correspond to this classification). Beauty theory falls under some combination of metaphysics, epistemology, metaethics, aesthetics, and psychology. Although in the 20th century beauty was most likely perceived as an evaluative concept of art, the recent philosophical interest in beauty can again be seen as the use of arguments pertaining to metaphysics, epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of meaning and language in addition to philosophy of art and environmental aesthetics... This work was funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council: DP150103143 (Taste and Community).
