The Philosophy of Beauty Timeline Game
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About This Challenge
The Philosophy of Beauty explores the concept of aesthetics and the perception of beauty in art, nature, and beyond. In this context, the timeline game serves as a creative way to engage with historical events and appreciate the beauty of their sequence.
- Players must carefully consider the details of each event and arrange them in the correct chronological order.
- The game challenges players to think critically about the progression of time and how events are interconnected.
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- c. 400 BCE: Plato defines beauty as the highest form of reality in his dialogues
- c. 350 BCE: Aristotle discusses beauty as a combination of order, symmetry, and definiteness in his works
- c. 200 CE: Plotinus writes about the concept of beauty as a reflection of the divine in the physical world
- c. 400 CE: St. Augustine explores beauty as a reflection of God's perfection in his writings
- c. 1250: Thomas Aquinas incorporates Aristotle's ideas on beauty into Christian theology in his Summa Theologica
- c. 1490: Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man illustrates the concept of beauty through proportion and symmetry
- c. 1500: Renaissance humanists like Alberti and Vasari write about the importance of beauty in art and architecture
- 1790: Immanuel Kant discusses the subjective nature of beauty in his Critique of Judgment
- c. 1820: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel explores beauty as an expression of spirit in his lectures on aesthetics
- 1890: Oscar Wilde writes about the importance of beauty in his essay 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
- c. 1913: Edmund Husserl discusses the phenomenology of beauty in his work 'Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology'
- c. 1935: Martin Heidegger explores the concept of beauty as a way of revealing truth in his work 'The Origin of the Work of Art'
- 1966: Susan Sontag critiques the commodification of beauty in her essay 'Against Interpretation'
- c. 1970: Jacques Derrida deconstructs traditional notions of beauty in his work 'The Truth in Painting'
- 1999: Elaine Scarry examines the relationship between beauty and justice in her book 'On Beauty and Being Just'
- 2006: Alain de Botton explores the philosophy of beauty in his book 'The Architecture of Happiness'
- 2012: Sianne Ngai introduces the concept of 'cute' as a new form of aesthetic category in her book 'Our Aesthetic Categories'
- 2014: Paul Guyer publishes 'A History of Modern Aesthetics' which includes discussions on the philosophy of beauty
- 2018: Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann writes about the different theories of beauty in her book 'Aesthetics and Morality'
- ongoing: The debate on the nature of beauty continues in contemporary philosophy and aesthetics