"A darwinian theory of beauty" by Denis Dutton.

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Today, we must talk about the beauty. So, we will speak about Denis Dutton, who was a great american phlisopher of art. In the video of the web site http://www.ted.com we can see the conference  entitled:  "A Darwinian Theory of Beauty". Dutton attempts to show what's beauty. The philosopher says that the beauty is manifested in several varieties, there is the artistic beauty, the natural beauty, the human beauty, etc. The most solid theory of the beauty comes from  the mind of a scientist: Charles Darwin. We can explain the nature of beauty across the evolution theory. Dutton says there are two variants of this theory. The first: The natural selection,which includes a liking for certain foods and the sexual pleasure; and the second, called 'sexual selection',which aims to reproduction. The individuals attract the opposite sex through the magnetism of the beauty. Dutton says that we can see that in the exemple of the male peacocks feathers, who opens his tail to attract the female peacock. Someone may think that artistic beauty is a cultural product, Dutton speculates, but he says that this is wrong because, he says that the artistic beauty has the same purpose as peacock feathers. So, he talk about the very ancient hand ax of the prehistoric men. The hand ax was a teardrop-shaped stone but this weapon was not used to hunt animals; the hand ax was the first work of art of the human been! Likeness of peacock tail, the hand ax was made for attract attention to the others. A beautiful hand ax showed the talents of the artist who manufactured it. And this is the reason which we admire, for exemple, a virtuous pianist. Beauty lies in the well crafted things, like the big tail of the peacock. 

At the end of the conference, Dutton says that beauty is a virtue of the intelligent capabilities and he adds that the beauty is a product of the rich emotional lives.