Blog #2: Beauty


The picture comes from this site. https://weheartit.com/entry/242033660 Author: Yosrrat

Summary: https://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty/transcript

The things people call beautiful are different. This brief list includes human beings, natural landforms, works of art, and skilled human actions. Beauty is an adaptive effect, which we extend and intensify in the creation and enjoyment of works of art and entertainment.  People agree that paintings or movies or music are beautiful because their cultures determine a uniformity of aesthetic taste. There are many differences in the arts, but there are also universal cross-cultural aesthetic pleasures and values. Social situations in which people evolved also change people how to thing of beauty. 




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