DENIS DUTTON: A DARWINIAN THEORY OF BEAUTY
"Artifact and Images that have intrigued humans for centuries"
"Beauty in ancient cultures"
"Different ways of contemplate Beauty"
"Eyes of Beauty and Heart of Beauty, we feel both of them"
In this talk Denis Dutton talks about how the evolution made beauty an alluring way to express ourselves, even Mother Nature. He wants to show us how much the notion of beauty changed across the human and animal timeline and nature as well. He talks about our perception of beauty in landscapes (the gorgeous ones), and how it had influenced at us. He also makes a recoil to the prehistoric times where the troglodyte had a clear expression of beauty in the way they made their tools: oval and almost symmetric, without scraches or marks of being used before in cutting or chopping. With those evidences, the art lovers deduced that ancient cavemans also had a perception about beauty. The other way, animals like peacock have beauty on them like their shinning and dazzling blue tails that male peacock use to attract female ones, in this case Denis Dutton talked about sexual attraction.
I agree with those facts and those beauty visions in other issues because most of us thinks beauty as a part of ourselves only with clothing as a decoration, making consumism the most beauty-senseless agent in the world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty
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