Concepts in aesthetics

1. Core value According to Hofstede (1997), values form the nucleus of culture, which is the most invisible element of culture. Values guide people on moral and ethical behavior like what should be done. Values are feelings including both positive and negative side. The core value of Mayo Clinic is that the patient interests are the most critical and preferable affair. They believe that best interest of patient is the only interest to be considered for any circumstances. Therefore, their…

A Comparison of Medina and Nietzsche’s Philosophy The philosophies of Jose Medina and Friedrich Nietzsche differ in the sense that Medina focuses on the epistemic injustice while Nietzsche focuses on deconstructing morality. Medina explores injustice in society with the goal of finding factors that contribute to its existence. In essence, the philosopher believes morality to be a noble human virtue, and a factor that can be used to eliminate social injustices. However, due to social beliefs that…

Amulet Mosaic Reflection Guide I’ve never been that good at Art but I love doing art (at least I hope what I make is good enough to be considered art). I just try to produce something with the best of my ability and hope for the best. In AP Art, we were given a project about mosaics. A mosaic is a picture or design made of tiny pieces (tesserae) of colored stones, glass, tile or paper adhered to a surface. In order to do this, we relied on the knowledge we have about this project since this…

“When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue” (Coelho). This is what Wilde also similarly claims about disobedience being someone's virtue. Disobedience and virtue are known as two different things and are very opposite of each other, because of their meaning. But Wilde puts it into one category which determines disobedience as a good thing next to the list of goodness, righteous, honesty, kindness, and obedience. Since virtue already is determined as a high moral standard,…

“Perfection,” that is what people want. In today’s society, people desire in wanting to be perfect. The two stories, “The Falling Girl” and “They’re Not Your Husband,” shows how society’s standards have an overwhelming effect on people. The first story, “The Falling Girl,” is about Marta, a 19-year-old girl who falls off a roof of a skyscraper hoping to reach the bottom and metaphorically shows her journey through life. The second story, “They’re Not Your Husband,” is about Earl and Doreen, a…

that to appreciate the beauty of California one must experience the small peculiarities it has to offer. This is to show that there is no anger towards the "Easterner" who cannot see the beauty of the land. Gioia is perhaps trying to translate the concept that those who can see beauty in certain subjects should not project anger onto people who lack the perspective to view the world…

deontological ethics, also known as Kantian ethics. Kant believed that whether an action was right or wrong did not depend on the consequences, but on whether they fulfilled our duty as rational beings. Kant’s ethics are guided from the philosophical concept that is the Categorical Imperative, a wholly binding rule of morality that is justified as an end in itself. In the spelunker case, Kant would ultimately have the choice of killing the large man to save himself and the life of others, or…

Pride and Prejudice was written during the Georgian Era. This time there was little artificial lighting and structures were made in a way where natural light was meant to light up the whole room. The lighting in the film used a combination of lighting that attempted to make the film seem like an authentic representation of the time that the story took place. The scene at the very beginning when they are discussing the arrival of Mr. Bingley is a great example of lighting indicative of the…

division Nietzsche makes between the Apollonian and Dionysian tendencies in art. They both claim that there are aesthetic experiences that are oriented towards a form or rational ideal (Nietzsche believes this ideal to be a dream), but there are also aesthetic experiences that expose man to limitlessness and formlessness. However, Kant and Nietzsche are not going to agree on what an aesthetic experience of the limitless and formless will inspire in us. Kant makes a division between the…

Title and number of the article. Reading 19: How moral are you? Who did the original study? Lawrence Kohlberg did the original study in 1927-1987 What are the reasons the researcher carried out this study? The initial reason that the researcher carried out the study was because he wanted to find out how the amoral infant becomes capable of moral reasoning. Kohlberg also did this study to expand more on Piaget’s ideas on intellectual development. Kohlberg wanted to formulate a method for…