Experience the beauty?

When most people around the word: see, feel and hear “beuty”, they expressly accepted “beauty”, in their music, culture, clothes, dog, house, jobs, etc., without questions.

Denis Dutton explains “Beauty” by looked at it in a different way: “the evolutionary way”, or he calls it: “Darwinian theory of beauty”.

In this talk for about 15 minutes, he explains this theory extremely briefly and didactically and that the beauty has been felt and has changed throughout human and animal evolution. Always he is making the difference about “psycho-social” human evolution and “physical changes”, over the way of beauty.

He was explaining too, about two different types of experience the beauty:

1. Beauty is culturally conditioned, reflecting the social consensus of what is considered normal or desirable, beautiful or ugly. We can see many examples from daily life that would illustrate this progress in human life, like: clothes, fashions, fears, pleasures, etc. which we have learned about over time, and from the culture which is transmitted from generation to generation.

2. We can say that arts and nature are a universal beauty that knows no borders, because all people around the world like music, painting, buildings, books; and natural land forms

These two forms of beauty give us pleasure, and this is great! Because this is the reason we can find in all beauty things.
In conclusion, in the words of the author himself: “beauty is in the culturally conditioned eye of the beholder, and includes human genes, natural land forms, work of arts and skilled human actions."
Finally I'd like to share two videos, about fashion and music evolution. Enjoy!

Fashion:

Music:

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