Concepts in aesthetics

The Book Thief, Mark Zusak is trying to prove whether humans are inherently evil and beautiful. Are you on the side of beauty? Yes, i am in the side of beauty. What does beauty mean? form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. How does it relate to humanity? Because you are born good but the corrupts you throughout life and makes you evil. People are born beautiful because humans naturally want to help other humans. People are born good, but when they get older, the world…

I am going to begin this essay with a heartfelt apology. I wanted to get this out of the way because this is going to be a very opinionated essay, comparable to that found within the last two pages of the online reading Art Without Boundaries. Unlike the aforementioned reading, I do not believe art has cultural boundaries. Neither in the past and especially not in today’s multi-culturally embracing society. There used to be an understanding that (good) art transcends all boundaries. Up…

FINAL ASSIGNMENT CALEB TONY-ENWIN PHIL 1000 100939996 APRIL 2, 2015 Question 1: Explain why Kant did not end up with Hume 's skepticism as far as the notion of causality goes. For this question you are required to explain what Hume 's skeptical solution to the 'problem of causality ' is and then explain in detail how Kant avoids this skeptical solution (in other words, you will have to talk about what role causality plays in Kant’s system and how Kant…

Everyone 's become too dependent on what they are used to having without working for it, but what if something went wrong? Where would we be then? Money is central, it causes war, poverty, disagreements and it gets to people 's heads. War is ongoing, in too many countries of the world. Yet so many people turn a blind eye to it, not enough people care. Eventually, we will be brought back to a more natural way of living by one means or another. If we choose to live more harmoniously, we can still…

Art is a very emotional entity both inspired and created by feeling. Something moves the painter and sculptor to transform the perspectives of their minds’ eye into something tangible and visible. With that same feeling, designers of the landscape, interiors, structures, fashion, transportation, cities and government have been [at least initially] moved by ideals and passion. The assigned bulleted manifestos and pointed proclamations seemed to carry an evolutionary theme. This theme is not…

In modern day society, imagery and subtlety is bombarded upon the world’s population, forcing to a degree, to make people perceive life and others in the way media presents us and advertisers employ a powerful strategy to sell a sense of worth and value that is only attainable if you purchase the right products. 
Now, the idea of portraying and selling a sense of value is in essence saying that this worthiness can only be bought and conformity is of a requirement to achieve this value. But what…

This could be seen in the following: If you want to torture children, you should seek psychiatric help. You want to torture children. Therefore, you should seek psychiatric help. While this seems perfectly valid, suppose we replace the first premise with a hypothetical imperative: If you want to torture children, you should volunteer as a babysitter. You want to torture children. Therefore, you should volunteer as a babysitter. Thus, when we affirm the first premise as a hypothetical imperative,…

Who and what can we considered an artist or art? One can say that throughout pop culture celebrities have been dabbling in the art world, but especially today, now that we have access to celebrities and what they are doing we can see everything about them with just the click of a button. Today A listers like Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Shia Labeouf, James Franco, and Miley Cyrus along with other celebrities have, in one way or another made their name into the art world. Some people consider them to be…

An Analysis of the Plainness of the Quaker Aesthetic: The Artistic Resolution of the Inward Light and the Material World The major focus of the Quaker aesthetic will be defined through the conflicting expression of art as a form of “plainness” in the spiritual building of the material world. The spiritual process of artistic expression in the Quaker community was based on the conflict of spiritual principles, which sought to minimize the corruption and debasement of the material world. This…

The Introduction to Women’s Studies class was very informative and very eye opening for me. There are many things that I learned about women’s history and many of those things are still very significant today for the fight for equality and women’s rights. Some of my favorite topics were matters that I had a personal interest in, as well as my own experiences with. I am very focused on fighting for equality for everyone, especially for woman; with this comes the understanding that we need to…