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.

2 comments:

  1. Yes! Forget the philosophical explanations about beauty for a while.
    I agree, is very original theory.

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  2. i think that this new theory really is original, but also it carry a lot of possibles critics on a whole view.

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