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Beauty and Ethics Timeline Game

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Beauty and Ethics is a thought-provoking game that challenges players to consider the relationship between aesthetics and moral values. In this game, players will explore how societal norms and personal beliefs influence our perceptions of beauty and ethical behavior.

  • Players will engage in critical thinking as they navigate through various scenarios that test their understanding of beauty and ethics.
  • The game encourages players to reflect on their own values and beliefs, prompting important conversations about the complexities of moral decision-making.
  • Game Details: a timeline game where you place events in their correct chronological order.
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  • 385-370 BCE: Plato's Symposium discusses beauty as a form of ultimate goodness
  • 335 BCE: Aristotle's Poetics explores the concept of beauty in art and literature
  • 397-400 CE: St. Augustine writes about the connection between beauty and God in 'Confessions'
  • 1265-1274: Thomas Aquinas incorporates beauty into his theory of aesthetics in 'Summa Theologica'
  • 1503-1506: Leonardo da Vinci creates his masterpiece 'Mona Lisa', which is considered a pinnacle of beauty in art
  • 1790: Immanuel Kant publishes 'Critique of Judgment', discussing the concept of aesthetic beauty
  • 1820s: G.W.F. Hegel explores the relationship between beauty and ethics in his lectures on aesthetics
  • 1851-1853: John Ruskin's 'The Stones of Venice' emphasizes the moral significance of beauty in architecture
  • 1872: Friedrich Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy' discusses the role of beauty in Greek tragedy
  • 1913: Edmund Husserl's 'Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology' explores the phenomenology of beauty
  • 1935: Martin Heidegger's 'The Origin of the Work of Art' delves into the essence of beauty in art
  • 1970: Iris Murdoch's 'The Sovereignty of Good' discusses the relationship between beauty and morality
  • 1999: Elaine Scarry's 'On Beauty and Being Just' argues for the ethical importance of beauty
  • 2006: Alain de Botton's 'The Architecture of Happiness' explores the connection between beauty and wellbeing
  • 2001: Martha Nussbaum's 'Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions' examines the role of beauty in ethical reasoning
  • 2012: Sianne Ngai's 'Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting' discusses the cultural significance of beauty
  • 2015: Robin James's 'Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism' explores the political implications of beauty standards
  • 2019: Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann's 'Aesthetics and Morality' examines the relationship between beauty and ethics in contemporary philosophy

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