PHIL 001 Lecture 28: Phil 1 (Introduction to Philosophy) - Lec 28

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Philosophy (PHIL)
• Course: PHIL 001
• Professor: cline

Document Summary

Nehamas characterizes 2 embarrassing views of beauty: pierre bordieu-aesthetic judgment arises from cultural norms and political ideologies, seductive mask of evil-political evils, martin nausbaum: the value of aesthetic experience is in its moral import, attractive face of goodness. To save beauty is to give it a vital role in our lives that is not solely dependent on political or moral conditions. It is to find something more to beauty than more personal opinion. Objects or works judged beautiful by us produce in us a feeling of pleasure. That the production of such pleasure is governed by universal principles-principles that would apply to all beautiful works. Disagreements with others but also vast differences across beautiful objects judged so by one and the same person. No common nature or set of features found in all beautiful works which account for this pleasure. Essentially we should all be in agreement about objects of beauty.