Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Summary of "A Darwinian theory of beauty"

What is beauty?  We can find beauty in many different things like music, art, sports, plays, and so on.  When we think about this topic, we are likely to think beauty is determined by personal sense of value or culture.  However, Denis Dutton illustrates that there are universal beauty that has never changed since human existed, with Darwin's theory.  In nature, there are natural selection and sexual selection.  These selections mean that beautiful things naturally win and remain and what lost in competition disappears. This phenomenon is not dependent on culture but everywhere.  There are beautiful landscape which everybody loves regardless of culture or nationality.  Also people can feel beauty in something done well.  These example shows us that we have aesthetics not in our eyes but in our deep mind.  We have taken it over historically and we also give it to offspring as long as human exist.

1 comment:

  1. Chieu, this is a good and accurate short summmary! I do have one grammatical correction to make, though: "there are universal beauty" should be "there is a universal sense of beauty"--or something like that.

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