L6 Physical Self

• What are the two most-debated views about beauty?

  • Beauty is objective
  • Beauty is subjective
• What question did St. Augustine ask about beauty?

  Whether things were beautiful because they gave delight or vice versa
• How did Plato connect beauty to love and desire?

  He asserted that beauty exists in the realm of Forms
• What did Aristotle assert are the chief forms of beauty?

  Order, symmetry, and definiteness
• What did David Hume note about beauty?

  Beauty exists merely in the mind that contemplates it
• According to Immanuel Kant, what is the judgment of taste?

  It is not a judgment of cognition but an aesthetic one
• What did Francis Hutcheson say about the perception of beauty?

  It depends on the external sense of sight and an internal sense
• What do evolutionary psychologists say about beauty?

  • Faces hold fundamental characteristics indicating quality as a partner
  • Attractive men have prominent cheekbones and long lower faces
  • Attractive women have large eyes, small noses, and smooth skin
• What is body image defined as?

  How one thinks and feels toward one’s body
• Who coined the term self-esteem?

  William James
• How did behavioral scientists define self-esteem?

  As an attitude concerning one’s worth as a person
• How can cultural traditions influence body image?

  • They can have a positive influence on self-esteem
  • They can have a negative influence on self-esteem
• What does the phrase "Do not judge the book by its cover" imply about physical beauty?

  It suggests that physical beauty is not the only important aspect
• How is beauty defined in the dictionary?

  The degree to which a person’s physical traits are considered pleasing
• What is a self-image problem?

  When one's looks do not match their beauty standards