...A Study of Phi and its Importance in Human Choices Concerning Beauty By: Anthony McCabe Abstract This paper aims to answer what Phi is, where it is found in nature, and how it affects humans concerning our search for beauty. This is done through graphically and mathematically finding Phi, and identifying its unique properties. The history of Phi is explored, and its usage in the past is covered. Phi is then applied to nature, through its presence in the Golden Angle, nature, and architecture. Phi is then explored in human nature, when it comes to our physique and psychological choices. This leads to a conducted survey showing human wants in facial appearance, relevant to Phi. The results show a significant amount of people prefer the face closest related to Phi, supporting the hypothesis that Phi plays an important role in human beauty. Phi is found to be a mathematical phenomenon that predates even math itself, and has always been useful to societies and to nature itself. Phi is found everywhere in our world and makes objects and patterns seem more elegant because of its presence. This is relevant to humans as well, as, concerning beauty, Phi is a powerful measurement that psychologically attracts us at our most basic and primitive levels. A Study of Phi and its Importance in Human Choices Concerning Beauty One object, one thing, can be viewed in many different ways by many different types of people. For example, a piece of wood is a tool, or a building block...
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...Johnny Nguyen WR122-08 Dr. Celia Carlson 19 October 2015 Going Back to Our Innate Beauty Everyone has a memorable experience when they visit an art museum. Whether they are inspired or disappointed, they often leave with a good memory of at least one piece of art work. One memorable experience I had, was at the Portland Art Museum, in Downtown Portland, Oregon. The museum was presenting an exhibition, titled, “Seeing Nature,” from The Paul G. Allen Family Collection, which consisted of 39 landscape masterpieces. I went with two of my close friends. I remember sauntering through the hallways, getting lost in the somber landscapes by J.M.W. Turner, being enchanted by the colors in the iconic Monets, and being strangely moved by Georgia O’Keeffe’s fantastical flower paintings, all awhile sharing my thoughts amongst my dear friends. I saw that this experience was also shared amongst strangers and their families in the museum, and that is why human nature is fundamentally good, because we have the capacity to be profoundly affected by beauty. Most people among us, from theorists to philosophers to the commoner down the street, past and present, seek to finally answer that age-old question: is human nature fundamentally good or bad? Without this quest of examining and classifying our fundamental nature, we tend to become lost, and an unwanted sense of purposeless settles into our lives, putting a damp on our relationships and well-being. We seek to answer this question, because...
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...Love & Beauty John Keats: Keats is called the poet of beauty or some critics address him as ‘the worshiper of beauty’. Keats’s notion of beauty and truth is highly inclusive. That is, it blends all life’s experiences or apprehensions, negative or positive, into a holistic vision. Art and nature, therefore, are seen as therapeutic in function. Keats was considerably influenced by Spenser and was, like the latter, a passionate lover of beauty in all its forms and manifestation. This passion for beauty constitutes his aestheticism. Beauty, indeed, was his pole-star, beauty in Nature, in woman, and in art. He writes and defines beauty: “A think of beauty is joy for ever” In John Keats, we have a remarkable contrast both with Byron and Shelley. He knows nothing of Byron’s stormy spirit of antagonism to the existing order of things and he had no sympathy with Shelley’s humanitarian real and passion for reforming the world. But Keats likes and worships beauty. In his Ode on a Grecian Urn, he expresses some powerful lines about his thoughts of beauty. This ode contains the most discussed two lines in all of Keats's poetry: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” The exact meaning of those lines is disputed by everyone; no less a critic than TS Eliot considered them a blight upon an otherwise beautiful poem. Scholars have been unable to agree to whom the last thirteen lines of the poem are addressed. Arguments can be made...
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...Facets of Beauty What is the first image that comes to your mind immediately after hearing the term beauty? Is it for example the famous model and representative of Victoria’s Secret, Adriana Lima, or a beautiful landscape you have seen and that it is still engraved in your memory, or just someone’s smile after giving him your help? According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, beauty is defined as “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit” (p.108); nonetheless, this concept remains relative and abstract because everyone pretends to know what the term “beautiful” means, but no one can really define it . In fact, beauty takes a variety of facets and may be seen from different perspectives depending on an individual’s perception. External beauty is the first facet that beauty can take. Many people see beauty in physical traits or in the fact of being physically attractive. Having blue eyes and blond hair, being tall and fit or being cheerful and dynamic are all characteristics of external beauty. Nonetheless, these characteristics are not a standard of judgment because they may differ from one person to another. Nowadays, media, movies and advertisement emphasize physical beauty that seems to them to be the most important criteria to attract people. As a result, a lot of people, especially women, swallow what advertisements try to make them think and spend a lot of money and time taking...
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...core belief in the possibility of direct access to the divine through nature. Emerson saw nature as a kind of perfect spiritual state. Emerson opens chapter 3 - a section relating to beauty - with "a nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of beauty." He argues that naturally, humans have a desire for beauty. He references the ancient Greeks by saying they "called the world cosmos." The Greeks definition of cosmos encompasses both order and beauty. Therefore, centuries before the Transcendentalist movement, the Greeks saw the world from their human eyes as structured...
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...[pic] Discover the Eternal Principles The Bible doesn’t have a theology of beauty or an aesthetic (a theory about the beautiful) of beauty. However, many things in the Bible are described as beautiful. And there is much about beauty that can be inferred from the Bible. Some of the teaching points below will deal with Scripture texts in which the Bible directly talks about beauty, but most will deal with texts that provide a theological foundation for how we, as Christians, should think of beauty. Teaching point one: God’s creation is beautiful and meant for our enjoyment. Read Ecclesiastes 3:11–14. The book of Ecclesiastes is best known for its ode to time: “For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die…” (NRSV). Alongside this theme, there is the well-known theme about life being vain, “a vanity of vanities,” a mere chasing after the wind. Missed, sometimes, in the midst of this gloomy, almost despairing perspective is another motif: that life is a gift from God and that the good things of life—food, drink, work, play, and love—are to be enjoyed. Beauty is part of them. [Q] What does this text teach us about beauty? ➢ How should we live in relation to the beauty of God’s creation? In the article, Stackhouse says that evangelicals generally don’t see the need for aesthetically pleasing church buildings because, they argue, the money could be better spent on evangelism...
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...Title It is in the spirit of the Enlightenment to ponder human nature. Just as the Enlightenment leads one to question his or her decision making—emphasizing decisions based in reason—the Enlightenment also leads one to question the motive behind those choices. Is it human nature to act in one’s own self-interest or, rather, on a moral sense? Connected to these questions on motive are the Enlightenment concepts of beauty, or “that quality…by which [it causes] love, or some passion similar to it,” and the sublime: “whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger.” Beauty and sublime hold immense influence over the human conscience and that is evident far beyond the Enlightenment period. People then and now often choose...
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...A Matter of Beauty “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines beauty 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”. However, what do we as society define beauty as? Doesn’t beauty depend on our own personal opinion? The media has convinced many people in society that beauty is only skin deep, but there is more to the matter. There are two main types of beauty, inner and outer beauty. In my opinion, inner beauty is more important than outer beauty because it is lasting instead of transient. Outer beauty is the easiest kind of beauty a person can notice. When meeting a person we don’t know for the first time, we often find ourselves intrigued at the sight of them. In this case, however, we are only analyzing his/her outer beauty. While physical beauty is alluring and possibly the drive behind why most people choose to interact with each other, many times someone considered “beautiful” can also have a malicious personality. A well known English classic, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, gives a perfect example of why inner beauty is lasting and outer beauty is transient. The story is about a group of school boys stranded on an uninhabited island. They must create their own “adult free” society. The sophisticated novel reflects the nature of human beings through the boys’ makeshift...
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...expectations of 'the perfect appearance'. Ladies and gentleman, One of the most fascinating aspects of Brave New World for me is that it epitomises the pursuit of physical perfection and treatment of the notion of female beauty. In my opinion, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World conditions people into the ‘perfect human’ leading then to the ‘ideal society’ that Brave New World is about. This is a precise reflection of today’s society and our so called ‘obsession for physical perfection’. You see, in Brave New world, humans never have to think of dieting, plastic surgery,...
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...Frankenstein was published during the beginning of the literary movement which abolished previously-held ideas of structure and form that occurred in novels beforehand. The author embodies the Romantic literary movement by the use contrasting emotions of terror and beauty to emphasize the inspiration that nature could provide. The use of lightening symbolized a nearing revelation. During the commencement of the novel Frankenstein witnesses his first thunderstorm and the force lightening enchants him, “...As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak…and nothing remained but a blasted stump…The catastrophe of this tree excited my extreme astonishment.” The power that the lightening held and...
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...successfully achieved. The basic planning process is made up of seven steps. The steps are: setting objectives, analyzing and evaluating the environments, identifying the alternatives, selecting the best solution, implementing the plan, controlling and assessing the results. The South Carolina Beauty Bar does not have different managers or departments. Therefore, the owner, manager, and assistant manager play a role in the basic planning process. There are no three levels of management. • Setting Objectives - "Objectives set out what a business is trying to achieve....
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...the question "What is art?" It may be the most important question for a philosopher to concern himself with. What is art? How is it known? And how, given the answers to these questions, may it be evaluated? We will look at two books on this subject: Beauty by philosopher and critics Roger Scruton and Cynthia Freeland: but is it art? Both writers are consummate prose stylists who display as well as discuss a fine aesthetic sensibility. We will use the Holy Virgin Mary painting by Chris Ofili and the Matana Roberts performance as the template for which we will assess the fine line between aesthetics and ethics according to these philosophers. The Holy Virgin Mary is a painting created by Chris Ofili in 1996. The subject of the work, and its execution, caused considerable controversy– describing Ofili's work as "sick". The piece features a yellow-orange background, the large painting (8x6) depicts a black...
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...a brand in the beauty industry, is the name of a successful entrepreneur not only among the women entrepreneur but also among all the entrepreneur of Bangladesh. With a deep passion on beautification of human being and a great wish to do something different and big, she started her journey in the beauty industry. In her journey to become a successful woman entrepreneur in the beauty industry of Bangladesh, she got all types of necessary supports from her mother, in laws, husband and peer groups. With the aim to provide the clients with the best quality skin and hair care services, and also bridal makeover, Kaniz opened beauty salon Glamour at her residence in Kalabagan in 1990, with nine workers and an initial investment of Tk 2 lakh which she borrowed from Micro Industries Development Assistance and Services (MIDAS). After being successful to win the love of the clients , she got countrywide recognition as an expert in hair care and inspired many small entrepreneurs to get involved in this business by becoming the 'brand ambassador' for Sunsilk in 1991. As the result of the successful journey, Glamour was turned into Persona Hair and Beauty Ltd. In 1998.Now she is thee successful entrepreneur of two companies: Persona Hair and Beauty Ltd and Persona Beauty Care Ltd. Persona Hair and Beauty Ltd also runs an independent studio and monthly publication 'Canvas'. The company has introduced Persona Health, Spring Spa, Adams' for men, and Persona Institute of Beauty and Lifestyle. Persona...
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...Practical Philosophy November 2001 Plato’s theory of Love: Rationality as Passion Lydia Amir 'I … profess to understand nothing but matters of love.' Socrates in Plato’s Symposium. times, when due to their education and to political changes, women earned the right to love and to be loved as equals to men. When one dispels these misunderstandings related to the popular notion of Platonic love, one finds a great richness and depth in Plato’s theory of love. In explaining why love is so important to us and yet why it fails us so often, Plato’s view of love seems applicable to our time. It is common knowledge that a very high rate of divorce threatens our marriages. We expect a lot from the sexual passion we call love, but usually end up disappointed when the romance goes away. Yet we keep getting married, thinking that we are going to be the ones that will beat the system. If we fail, we change our partner and try again. We end up our love life as we began it, confused, afraid and as disappointed as we were hopeful. The malaise that characterises our love lives naturally finds its way to the philosophical consulting room. In this paper I shall attempt to show how Plato’s view of love can be helpful both in dispelling our confusion about love and in proposing some solutions to our suffering. A comprehensive account of Plato’s complex theory of love, an exhaustive presentation of the controversies involved in interpreting it or a thorough discussion of the problems it creates...
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...Therefore there must be a God. You either see this or you don’t.” This argument is simple yet so powerful at the same time. Peter J. Kreeft is telling the reader that without God, there would be no Sebastian Bach. Without God, there would be no such thing as art or music. In experiencing beauty one can feel themselves get in contact with a deeper reality. Only by witnessing beauty first-hand can someone truly appreciate God’s existence. Beauty, in a naturalistic worldview, is incompatible with the idea of evolution. Evolution states that an organism is created, then naturally adapts to whatever circumstances it is thrown into. Therefore, Beauty has no biological purpose, it only has a spiritual purpose. It is an experience that brings someone closer to the spiritual world. Furthermore, because beauty did not come from evolution, it must’ve come from a divine entity. Therefore proven that God does in fact exist. This argument is appealing to the modern mind because it shows that modern theory of evolution is not exactly true. In addition, it is appealing because beauty is something all humans experience daily. There is no logical way of proving that an evolutionary adaptation could have lead to a sense of...
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