PHILOS 2H03 Lecture 6: Philos 2H03 - Jan 24 Lecture
28 Jan 2017
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Classical beauty is in the optimization of three parts: proportion, symmetry and harmony. Primary qualities are qualities of things: can be measured. Secondary qualities are qualities they appear to have: they are based on the interaction of primary qualities and perception. Colours have no reality outside of perception, the same goes for taste, the ideas of rough and smooth. Beaut(cid:455) is a se(cid:272)o(cid:374)da(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:395)ualit(cid:455), it"s a feeli(cid:374)g, a su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e idea: exists in consciousness, not in physical nature. Hume"s e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) of (cid:271)eaut(cid:455): the arrangement of parts causing pleasure. Plato and aristole never discussed this: pleasing may come from nature, or by custom, and habit eg operas, or it may be a whimsically, idiosyncratically, by individual preference. The difference between modern beauty and its opposite is what you feel as a response. Subjective look on beauty raises a problem: tate is capacity of judgement.
