Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Learning english

I think nowadays english is a fundamental language. If you don’t know how to speak english is as you don´t know how to use a computer. Has been very useful for my career to learn english. Now I can read many art texts in english (most of the translations are in english). English 3 classes help me to think in english, I have faster answers because I try to think in english rather than spanish.  Moreover learn english has been very helpful in the most common areas of my life, for example I can understand the “instructions” of many things. There are some things I’d change about english classes, I’d like to change how we start learning english in levels 1 and 2. We should learn to think and speak in english since the firs levels because in level 3 taking the pace is very complex. I think we should talk more between us about issues of our interest. Anyway english classes are a great contribution.

Friday, June 15, 2012

A Darwinian Theory of Beauty?

Denis Dutton talks about beauty. And it’s a very complicated question because there are a lot of answers. People can say that beauty is subjective or culturally conditioned, but there are universal cross-culture aesthetic pleasures. Denis Dutton explains this universality through a Darwinian evolutionary history of our artistic and aesthetic tastes. The idea is trying to understand our aesthetic tastes basing in the human evolution. The beauty we find in skilled performances is a fundamental trait of the ancestral personality that persists in us. The beauty is in our minds because the evolution. I think this explication of the beauty is very original. This theory is extremely fantastic because isn’t responds to a conventional aesthetic thought and makes a lot of sense.