Today I'm going to talk about a subject very controversial: beauty.
Beauty across the history was very discussed, since we have conscious.
This is studied from different disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, but especially from the aesthetic. Ordinarily, people say that beauty is what causes pleasure in the perception.
I think beauty is an personal and cultural experience, at the same time.
Has subjective and social components, building a personal vision, that is adapted to the social vision. A micro-vision that adapts to a macro-vision.
Beauty is the subject of the video made by TED: Ideas worth spreading (www.ted.com) , called ¨A Darwinian Theory of Beauty?", in this video Denis Dutton talks about a relation between beauty, biology and art.
He think that beauty isn't a social construction, but has to do with evolution and natural selection. He links all this with Darwin theory of evolution.
I think that his ideas are too basics and unsustainable, above all when we know and study this in our University. A lot of philosophy and theory could deny with better arguments, from sociology or antropology, all that Denis Dutton Says.
How could we know if prehistoric humans think this or that was beautiful?
He have a really positivist way of thinking.
Well, that was my comment about this video
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