Stumbling on the inter-web i come across Immanuel Kant's name a couple of times. I search deeper into his history and find that he has something to say about Aesthetics! Yay!
Kant has mentioned that our perceptions are either pleasurable or displeasurable. Either way it is a feeling or an emotion through senses and this is why we judge whether good or bad. He also agreed that "beautiful" was a feeling. He described it as an object or mode of representation that causes delight to the human senses regardless of interest. What he means by this is that we can be positively aroused by anything we find beautiful without the object or mode of representation having any importance or significance to us at all. For instance look at these pictures below . .
Most of you will find the bird image on the left as beautiful or cute or what ever you want to call it and the image on the right as something rather unusual or weird.. Well that was what i thought about these images i found anyway. This is just an example of what Kant had explained, we are positively aroused by the images or objects that we like than the ones we don't.
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