Similarities Between Hume And Kant

know the feeling one can have when one hears a beautiful song that brings joy to ones heart, stand in a field of flowers that excites ones eyes, or admire a face that is visually pleasing. The controversial issue that surrounds beauty is that some believe that true beauty is defined by someone’s outer appearance, while others believe it is something that is experiences through a person’s character. Beauty is defined as the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the sense or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. The secret of beauty has been a quest of humans for centuries. It has been determined that women and some men spend up to one third of their income on products and procedures that enhance their looks. People spend way too much time looking in the mirror, scrutinizing, worrying, fretting, and wishing people could change something about themselves. People dream of looking like the girl at work because she has great hair, or the girl people meet at a party because she is skinny, with the perfect nose. This happens because people are constantly on social media. A pretty face is not a complete definition of beauty, nor is the quality of one being kind and compassionate. To contain beauty, someone or something does not have to be physically beautiful. Beauty is everywhere. Take a simple flower.

Reference: Roger McMichaels. A Deeper Look at Beauty. New York: Graymark, 1995. The quoted material is taken from page

Prejudice is “an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge” (Merriam); according to Lystra Moore Richardson of Yale University: “prejudice… was part of the very fiber of Southern life [during the Great Depression].” With these two pieces of information, it is derived that people formed judgments and opinions of a person without just

In moving away from the objective property-based or perfectionist theories of the medieval and early modern periods to this sort of subject-based aesthetic, Kant did not intend to give up the idea that judgments of beauty are universalizable. Accordingly, much of the first part of the Critique is given to showing how one person’s reflective aesthetic judgments can be legitimately "imputed" to or expected from all properly-situated human subjects.(3) The famous "Deduction of Judgments of Taste" (§ 38) provides a sketch of this argument. Very briefly, Kant argues that since the faculties under consideration are "required for possible cognition as such," it follows that all who (through communicating with others reveal their ability to) cognize anything are susceptible to the same experience of faculties in free harmony, and to the concomitant aesthetic pleasure. As long as the subject takes himself to be conscientiously beholding the object under appropriate circumstances (e.g. without interest, prejudice, etc.) he can take his judgment of taste to imply in an "a priori" fashion that under similar circumstances other well-functioning human beings likewise will be pleased by it.(4)

The paper starts with multiple definitions of what beauty is defined as and moves to what the experience of beauty is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Transcendentalist author, so he explored concepts beyond the scope of science. That is to say, non-empirical concepts that cannot be known through observation, the senses, or experience, without pattern. The concept of beauty is non-empirical because it cannot be fully understood by observation. While a man can see that a rose is beautiful, or feel the beauty in the weight and smoothness of a strand of pearls, he can never know that a thing is beautiful by seeing or touching it. This is why Emerson describes beauty as an “eternal fugitive” (75) in Ode to Beauty. Emerson’s philosophy can be seen as a reaction to the limitations of the Rational Movement, who rejected non-empirical

People have contributed to the physical and cultural view of beauty in societies all around the world. Each country has different beauty standards that reflect off of each other to display diversity: “Beauty is informed by values, culture, religion, background and societal influence. Concepts of beauty has change over time depending on environment, culture, etc”. Through the different standards of other cultures, societies are able to learn that there is not only one form of beauty. The evolution of beauty around the world allows people to compare opinions with another to form individual perspectives of beauty.

Mapping a Conversation on the Standardization of Beauty Many people in this world have their own definition of what beauty is. Beauty can come from inside or the outside. To me, beauty is not only something that pleases the eyes. Beauty is a quality that pleases or delights the senses or mind from one’s own perspective. Unfortunately, society makes it nearly impossible to see our own beauty.

Alexander Nehamas believes that the attracted properties of art and beauty lies within our feeling and emotions. In his account, he explained that even though a higher or more abstract ideas of beauty can be found, the fundamental principles we used to judge the quality of the art is not purely intellectual but, rather, the desires plays as a part of the appreciation. He emphasized that the beauty of the artwork provokes individuals to possess in a way that we want to know more about the painting whether from our lust or other forms of emotion (7). In another word, Nehamas reasons that emotional properties of the beauty attracts observer’s attention. To further clarify Nehamas’ argument, he pointed out that the beauty are capable of being deceptive

This article is about philosophy and literature, and the interaction between the two. The literature this article primarily refers to is, of course, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The philosophy is largely the philosophical ideas of famous philosopher Immanuel Kant, as written in his Critique of Judgment. There are quite a few ideas in this article, but the basis of them all is what Freeman declares her thesis to be, that “ Victor Frankenstein’s Monster is the third [AKA of Judgment] Critique’s heir, and that we are its inheritor.” That Frankenstein is the reply to the ideas of the Kant, and that we are built upon the two.

Perception and opinions have shaped the world in very exceptional techniques. Perception is the way in which the person criticizes comments, complains or praises whether on animated or on unanimated objects. Similar positions have been portrayed in the book On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Smith uses various literary works and literary devices to develop her position into describing how animated and unanimated object shape the lives of the characters in the book. Some examples of work of art or aesthetics mentioned extensively throughout the book are Rembrandt’s art, Mozart’s painting and the Caribbean drawing of a naked lady.

There is a common clique stating that beauty is pain. However, this message has a dangerous connotation to it, and the poems “Barbie Doll” and “Beauty” identify the woes of striving for society’s image of beauty. In today’s society, what is considered beautiful emphasizes physical characteristics over other aspects, also women can drastically change their self-perception depending on whether they are engaged in following the trends.

Beauty as seen through the eyes of the beholder infers a subjective point of view when people consider what truly defines beauty. While this ambiguous claim is still relevant in modern society, it originates with the author Margaret Wolf Hungerford and traces back to the ancient times of the Greek philosopher Plato (“Eye”). Furthermore, individuals can also vacillate on their interpretation of what is being seen in an image, as in the case of colors, where responses may vary based on how the eye perceives the image. For some, the color green may give the impression of blue, while for others red might appear orange. This may seem to be a rather unimportant component of daily living; however, it is actually ironic how color significantly plays

Hello, Timothy! Your response to the question was interesting and unique. However, I would disagree with some of the things you said, such as “Hume believed that we can only perceive reality based on our impressions and ideas that we develop when we are experiencing it.” I disagree with this, as the essay “Lecture - Hume and Kant” describes Hume’s belief on reality as we perceive reality through our impressions which then forms our thoughts/ideas about the world. According to Hume, no ideas are formed without the basis of an impression or experience. I would also like to point out that Hume “was not willing to agree with Berkeley that sensible objects are just clusters of sensory impressions” (page 124). This, in my opinion, is an important

What is beauty? How do we decide who is attractive and who is not? Society is full of information telling us what is beautiful, but what fact is that information based on? The topic of beauty has been studied, analyzed and controversial for centuries. We all know the feeling you can have when you hear a beautiful song that brings joy to your heart, stand in a field of flowers that excites your eyes, or admire a face that is visually pleasing. As human beings, we are all drawn to beauty, but what is it that makes something beautiful? The controversial issue that surrounds beauty is that some believe that true beauty is defined by someone’s outer appearance, while others believe it is something that is experienced through a person’s