1. From the first video, the key concepts that stood out the most to me were from Plato who said, "There is a beauty by which all things are beautiful." The concept that ideas are beyond the senses but one idea presents itself through reason, beauty. Plato also quoted, "What is beautiful in itself is not this object or that one, but that which conveys their own nature." The common theme I really liked was how beauty is portrayed differently to each person. Francis Hutcheson states that, "the ideas brought about in our soul by beauty and harmony delight us necessarily and immediately, just like the other sensible ideas. “Immanuel Kant had voiced that aesthetic experience makes possible the reconciliation of nature's determination with human moral freedom and that as long as nature and freedom are separated, the individual is torn apart. Kant said there is almost nothing you can't treat beautifully and sensibility and reason are brought together by means of the imagination. Lastly on his standpoint, is that judgment of the beautiful is not rule bound rather, it is based on a feeling and there is no description of what is beautiful. "What causes satisfaction in the judgment of the beautiful is pure form experienced in selfless contemplation." Points from the second video were that Changeux put an actual definition of art work and distinctly labels how it is explained or viewed. Changeux feels the human brain is a synthesis of multiple nested evolutionary processes. We process visual arts by processing bottom up and involving emotion and feelings. There are certain things in the brain that allow certain reactions to happen and feelings such as empathy for suffering or joy, etc. Ramachandran is more the science of art and feels the goal of art is to deliberately exaggerate or alter the image to produce pleasing effects of the human brain.
2. From the first video, the philosopher's theory that I felt is most important was Friedrich von Schiller (18th century). I first favored Immanuel Kant's theory that there is almost nothing you can't treat beautifully and judgment of the beautiful is not rule-bound rather, it is based on a feeling. As the video went on, Friedrich von Schiller, elaborated on Kant's theory and followed with the fact of educated people on what "beauty" is would develop more capacity for beauty. "When we develop our aesthetic capacities, we develop our moral capacities, so much that aesthetic education renders moral education superfluous."
3. I like the way that both Cahngeux and Ramachandran approach the thought of aesthetics and link them to the human brain. I like that because we view with our sense of sight and have a certain perception of art, we must be able to use our other senses which inevitably come from our brain. From Changeux's lecture I found the most interesting part the way he described the human brain and how senses are triggered from the art to have empathy for suffering and other feelings. From Ramachandran's lecture I found it most interesting that he thought the goal of art was deliberately exaggerating and image and try to make pleasing affects for the human brain. I found this most interesting because in all of these lectures and videos, we see art differently as we are all different people. In the first video, we all see beautiful as different but everything is beautiful but then by the end of the second video, everything is linked to senses in our brains and if this is true, why do we see things as less or more beautiful?
4. I feel the videos seem to cover more of a variety of opinions and information than the text. The text is part of a wide variety of topics so it can only go into so much detail before it needs to cover something else. In the videos you get information, charts, and quotes from numerous different people.
5. I happened to like the films although I was not so excited to watch them. It was hard to understand some of the people that talked but I tried to stop the video and go back and write things down so it took longer than I had assumed it would. As far as my understanding on the topics, I feel that the videos really did help and I really enjoyed the charts and visuals on the second one.
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