PHL 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Beauty Myth, Averageness, Neoteny
2 Apr 2016
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Looking fashionable first person perspective experience (a sociological relational property) Being fashionable third person perspective thinking (a simple property) Alienated to find it strange and unfamiliar. This is what happens in our experience in fashion. Fashion is from the first person perspective the matter of the way things look. My experience of fashionableness as a simple appearance property. My understanding that fashionableness is just a sociological relational property. Drains all the life of this experience: thinking about what fashion is reveals the first person perspective standpoint on fashion to be an allusion, defeated by the other side of the concept of fashion. Zangwill: fashion is an illusion and source of alienation left feeling bummed out and alienated. Fashion is not going to be an individualistic experience anymore: pessimistic approach. There are certain ideals about the human form (conventions) what is beautiful and not beautiful. Three explanations for our ideals of human beauty: nature, politics, culture.
