Beauty beyond the subjective and objective

Our beliefs about beauty don't match our actions

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so we are told. Filippo Contesi, Enrico Terrone, Marta Campdelacreu and Genoveva Martí argue that the traditional view in philosophy of art is that, whilst most of us claim to believe that beauty is subjective, we actually act as though it is objective. The true problem of aesthetics then, is not whether or not we believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but why our behaviour around beauty doesn’t match up with our stated beliefs. Beauty, it seems, is more than skin-deep.

 

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Param Singh 8 September 2024

Subjectivism in face of declared objectivism, explicitly saying something yet implicitly harboring the opposite - observations noted in outputs from selected participants for an experiment such as this one about aesthetics/taste, with fragmented mind being a factor, does seem to be inference of a trained thinker. An inherent trait of humans in social environments also is that of conformity - all members of any group of humans brought together for common purpose (again, for this discussion, endorsement due to objectivism or due to subjectivism), would naturally tend towards the median, conforming to the average rather than the extremes, like the bell curve. Possibly this human trait, tendency to conform, often to an imagined median (average), may be at play - why the respondents are subjective while they declared they'd be objective!!
There's also possibly at play another tendency - that of wishing to "please" the experimenter (in some ways same as tendency to conform to average) - a tendency to respond with an answer that would imaginably be in line with the personality of the experimenter/surveyor/teacher(in a class)/etc. As I write this, I am resisting a tendency to write thoughts that would please the reader/the author Filippo Contesi/IAI News/etc., in a way, resisting tendency to be subjective in my response rather that being objective as I'd want to be seen among people, as well as when I'm alone with myself!!! Opinion polls, verbal surveys, etc., are affected by these human factors - that's my belief, up to now!!!