UTS 1 MIDTERM

• Unrealistic Image


  the current embedded idea of what is attractive, beautiful, or handsome
• A positive view of "self"


  involves understanding the healthy, attractive bodies cone in many shape and sizes, and that physical appearance says very little about our character or value as a person
• Beauty


  is described as happiness
• Hellen Keller


  This person said "The best and most beautiful thing in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart"
• Nature of beauty


  most enduring and controversial themes in Western Philosophy
• True


  Beauty was among the ultimate values along with goodness, truth, and justice
• 20th century 


  When beauty was declined as a subject of philosophical inquiry
• beauty is: objective and subjective


  beauty on two most debated views
• In western philosophical views, beauty was treated as an objective quality
• St. Augustine


  "things were beautiful because it gave delight or where it gave delight because it was beautiful"
• Plato


  "beauty as a response to love and desire It is considered beautiful if it reflected the idea of beauty in the realm of forms'"
• Aristotle


  "beauty are order, symmetry, and definiteness that can be demonstrated by mathematical sciences"
• Beauty is associated with pleasure as a personal preference when in the 18th century
• David Hume


  "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them, and each mind perceives a different beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others"
• Immanuel Kant


  "The judgement of taste is therefore not a judgement of cognition and is consequently not logical but aesthetical, by which we understand that whose determining ground can be no other than subjective"
• Francis Hutcheson 


  "The perception of beauty does depend on the external sense of sight;

  ○ However on the internal sense of beauty operates as an internal or reflex sense.

  ○ The same is the case with hearing; hearing muscle does not necessarliy give perception of harmony as it is distinct from hearing.
• Cognitive Bias


  an error in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or any other mental process that is often a result of holding onto one’s preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information.