What is beauty? Denis Dutton

Denis Dutton is a Philosophy professor and Letter daily. He suggest that humans are hard-wired to seek beauty and how we can understood the beauty, but this point is very difficult and maybe such as art student, this term is material of discussion.

According to Dutton, the most powerful theory of beauty we yet have, we get it not of philosophy of art, postmodern art theorist or art critic. This theory comes from Charles Darwin... oh yes, the most famoumos evolution biologist. However, some people believe, including the academic preferences, beauty is in the cultural conditioned eyed of the beholder,  because people agree that music, movies or paintings are beautiful for their determinate culture. But understood this point is not so easy because, somethings are beautiful to everybody, for example when we travel around some place and we have seen a very scenic view of the landscape, this image can be beautiful to many people and can be image of the postal for their beauty, and this is not material of discussion. 


So in this fact, Dutton say the question; how we can explain this universality? And the best answer lies in tying to reconstruct  the Darwinian evolutionary history, because across the history, the human have been tried show signals or expressions of their emotion and senses with different  ways  of adaptation across the history. Other principle, is the sexual selection. In the nature the beauty is a phenomenon to produce sexual reproduction and we found something beauty, exits a sexual attraction.

However, in my personal opinion the beauty is a personal taste and can be very different between the different people... So if you feel that something is fancy to you, enjoy it!

Green Life

These last days the climate has been very strange… today, for example, the day was cloudy, even seemed dark. But sometimes the sun illuminated everything and it is very hot. In Santiago the heat is dry and stupid, I hate it. I think this horrible climate is caused by global warming, and the global warming was caused by humans… and this is definitely terrible. I feel sad when I think in all the damage we have caused to the nature with factories, cars, aerosols… and manly by the life in cities.

In my commune there are not trees or flowers, because we are poor people and municipality haven’t money to do an “accion plan” to educate people who drop the wrappers on the ground. If it were up for me, I would put many garbage dumps on each corners of this country, to promote love and care for the environment. I have incorporated some recycling habits in my life, since my grandmother began to teach me how separate the waste in organic garbage and inorganic garbage. In my home there are a big box where you can throw only potato skins, or watermelon peels, etc. and with this garbage we could be helping to grow a tree and life in general, because the circle is complete.

Anyway… I think if this country don’t do something, we going to lost a lot of beautiful places that we love so much. We need more trees and less asphalt!!!!!!