PIĘKNO JAKO POTRZEBA LUDZKA
“Beauty” is one of the most important and tantalising concepts in the history of Western philosophy. It dazzles us with its splendour and at the same times resists our attempts to define it. It was defined first (by Pythagoras and Plato) as an objective property...
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Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University
2003-06-01
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| Series: | The Polish Journal of Aesthetics |
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| description | “Beauty” is one of the most important and tantalising concepts in the history of Western philosophy. It dazzles us with its splendour and at the same times resists our attempts to define it. It was defined first (by Pythagoras and Plato) as an objective property of things and states of affairs. Next it was conceived as subjective — as a property of the mind: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Then it underwent a deep crisis, so that from the 17th to 20th centuries, philosophers avoided the idea of beauty. In this paper we try to establish a new — evolutionary — concept of beauty. This concept proposes that that beauty is neither objective nor subjective, but it is nevertheless universal and inter-subjective (within the species); that is when it is viewed in a proper evolutionary context. The quest for beauty is an inherent attribute of the human condition. Without beauty human beings wither. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-34a1ab5da06d4e6fb01f9d98a5c6239f2022-12-21T19:01:15ZdeuInstitute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian UniversityThe Polish Journal of Aesthetics2544-82422544-82422003-06-0152/2003113PIĘKNO JAKO POTRZEBA LUDZKAHenryk Skolimowski“Beauty” is one of the most important and tantalising concepts in the history of Western philosophy. It dazzles us with its splendour and at the same times resists our attempts to define it. It was defined first (by Pythagoras and Plato) as an objective property of things and states of affairs. Next it was conceived as subjective — as a property of the mind: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Then it underwent a deep crisis, so that from the 17th to 20th centuries, philosophers avoided the idea of beauty. In this paper we try to establish a new — evolutionary — concept of beauty. This concept proposes that that beauty is neither objective nor subjective, but it is nevertheless universal and inter-subjective (within the species); that is when it is viewed in a proper evolutionary context. The quest for beauty is an inherent attribute of the human condition. Without beauty human beings wither.https://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/documents/138618288/139072821/skolimowski.pdf/eaec6f3d-8d58-4649-81e0-19ce39467a36 |
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