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Exploring Aesthetics: Art and Beauty Philosophy

This document discusses key concepts in aesthetics and beauty from pre-Socratic times to modern Filipino perspectives. It addresses the nature of beauty, what constitutes a work of art, and analyses terms like "ganda" in the Filipino language. The main ideas are: 1) Aesthetics is the philosophy of art and beauty which examines the essence of beauty and what makes something a work of art. 2) Different philosophers from Plato to Plotinus have theorized about the nature of beauty as relating to proportion, harmony, and balance. 3) In the Filipino worldview, "ganda" refers to the total traits and characteristics that give the highest pleasure and involves both physical and

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Exploring Aesthetics: Art and Beauty Philosophy

This document discusses key concepts in aesthetics and beauty from pre-Socratic times to modern Filipino perspectives. It addresses the nature of beauty, what constitutes a work of art, and analyses terms like "ganda" in the Filipino language. The main ideas are: 1) Aesthetics is the philosophy of art and beauty which examines the essence of beauty and what makes something a work of art. 2) Different philosophers from Plato to Plotinus have theorized about the nature of beauty as relating to proportion, harmony, and balance. 3) In the Filipino worldview, "ganda" refers to the total traits and characteristics that give the highest pleasure and involves both physical and

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Aesthetics: The Philosophy

of Art and Beauty


Reported By:
Aurelio B. Montejo
Nicolester Q. Espinosa
 The Field of Aesthetics
philosophy – theory the ultimate reality of things.

of beauty – nature of beauty : why are beautiful thing


beautiful?

And art - essence of art: what makes something a work of


art.
Sample just like painting. a work of art is a beautifully made piece
of furniture.
• Beauty is an Aesthetic based on proportion and
Pre-Socratic
Times number, elements including clarity, symmetry,
harmony and vivid colour

• Beauty resided in proper measure and size, of


Plato parts that fit harmoniously into a seamless whole
• Theory of ideal forms

• Beauty resided in “order and symmetry and


Aristotle
definiteness”
• Beauty was synonymous with geometric form and
Augustine of balance.
Hippo • Equilateral triangles are more beautiful than
scalene triangle since parts were more even.

• Beauty must be present in both details and the


Plotinus
whole cannot be constructed out of ugliness.
Hierarchy of Beauty
TWO WAYS OF CONSIDERING BEAUTY

Relative Absolute
“Beauty is in the “Beauty is in
eye of the beholder” the thing itself”
The Filipino Aesthetic
Worldview

COVAR
• Pagkataong Filipino and the
AGENDA concepts of Labas ng Loob

JOCANO
• The beautiful person hood • The Filipino Aesthetic Worldview
(Magandang Pagkatao)
Filipino Worldview: Ethnography of Local Knowledge 2001
BY F. LANDA JOCANO

ANALYSIS OF THE MEANING OF WORDS IN A LANGUAGE IS


ANALYSIS OF THE FORM OF CULTURE ON WHICH LIES PEOPLES
WORLD VIEW

WORLD VIEW CULTURE LANGUAGE


A WAY OF PEOPLE LOOK AT A SYSTEM OF SYMBOLS AND CONTAINS WORDS THAT
THE UNIVERSE MEANINGS PEOPLE USE TO CARRIES CULTURE
ORGANIZE THEIR IDEAS
PEOPLE’S PICTURE OF THE WHICH THEY EXPRESS
UNIVERSE THAT LIES DEEP IN THROUGH LANGUANGE
THE HEART OF CULTURE
• THE PRIMARY FILIPINO AESTHETIC TERM
GANDA
• “SUM TOTAL OF KATANGIAN (TRAITS) OF ANYTHING THAT
(BEAUTY) GIVES THE HIGHEST PLEASURE TO THE SENSES”

GANDA (BEAUTY) – BUTI (GOOD)


• RELATIVE TERM SINCE ITS USE DEPENDS ON THE JUDGEMENT OF THE BEHOLDER

• WHEN APPLIED TO PERSON, GANDA INVOLVES BOTH PHYSICAL APPEARANCE (AYOS) AND SOCIAL
CHARACTER (UGALI).

• GANDA THEN IS ABOUT THE “ TOTALITY OF THE PERSON,” BOTH HIS PAGKATAONG PANLABAS (PHYSICAL
APPEARANCE) AND HIS PAGKATAONG PANLOOB ( SOCIAL BEAHAVIOR)

• GANDA AND BUTI (GOOD) ARE INTERCHANGEBLE TERMS SO THAT WHATEVER IS MAGANDA IS ALSO
MABUTI. AESTHETIC TASTE INVOLVES MORAL JUDGEMENT
The Concept of the Aesthetic

Aesthetic Objects
is ambiguous, and, depending on its interpretation, may suggest two separate
programs of philosophical aesthetics. The expression may denote either the “ intentional ”
or the “material” object of aesthetic experience.

Aesthetic Judgment
Judgment based on a feeling. He was especially concerned to describe those feeling-
based judgments in which an object is found beautiful, and then to show that we are
entitled to make such judgments despite being unable to verify them.

The Aesthetic Attitude


There are two parts to the aesthetic attitude: the aesthetic part, and the attitude part.
Here, an attitude is a certain state of mind. In particular, it is a way of approaching
experiences or orienting oneself toward the world. It may help to think of someone with an
optimistic attitude.
Aesthetic Experience
Aesthetic experience concerns the appreciation of aesthetic objects and
the resulting pleasure. Aesthetic living means taking a genuine interest in all
details of daily life. We can adopt an aesthetic attitude toward any aspect of
our lives.

Aesthetic Value

Aesthetic values ​are those that relate to the appearance of an object and
the emotions that that object causes in those who contemplate it. Therefore,
it is the value judgments that an observer emits on the appearance of an
object taking into account those feelings that it evokes in it (Values, 2014).
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