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Beauty and Perception Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

In the world of beauty and perception, understanding the sequence of events is key. That’s where this timeline game comes in, challenging players to place historical events in their correct chronological order.

  • Players will test their knowledge of key moments in history.
  • This game encourages critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
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  • 385-370 BC: Plato discusses beauty as a form in 'Symposium'
  • 335 BC: Aristotle writes about beauty in 'Metaphysics'
  • 3rd century AD: Plotinus explores the concept of beauty in 'Enneads'
  • 397-400 AD: St. Augustine discusses beauty in relation to God in 'Confessions'
  • 1265-1274: Thomas Aquinas writes about beauty in 'Summa Theologica'
  • 15th-16th centuries: Renaissance philosophers like Leonardo da Vinci and Alberti discuss beauty in art and architecture
  • 1790: Immanuel Kant writes about aesthetics and beauty in 'Critique of Judgment'
  • 1820-1829: G.W.F. Hegel explores beauty in art and nature in 'Lectures on Aesthetics'
  • 1818: Arthur Schopenhauer discusses beauty as a manifestation of the will in 'The World as Will and Representation'
  • 1872: Friedrich Nietzsche writes about the Dionysian and Apollonian aspects of beauty in 'The Birth of Tragedy'
  • 1913: Edmund Husserl explores the phenomenology of beauty in 'Ideas'
  • 1935-1936: Martin Heidegger discusses the essence of art and beauty in 'The Origin of the Work of Art'
  • 1943: Jean-Paul Sartre writes about the existentialist view of beauty in 'Being and Nothingness'
  • 1945: Maurice Merleau-Ponty explores the embodied experience of beauty in 'Phenomenology of Perception'
  • 1958: Hannah Arendt discusses the role of beauty in the public realm in 'The Human Condition'
  • 1977: Susan Sontag writes about the interpretation of beauty in 'On Photography'
  • 1978: Jacques Derrida deconstructs traditional notions of beauty in 'The Truth in Painting'
  • 1990: Martha Nussbaum discusses the relationship between beauty and ethics in 'Love's Knowledge'
  • 1999: Elaine Scarry explores the connection between beauty and justice in 'On Beauty and Being Just'
  • 2015: Alva Noë discusses the role of perception in experiencing beauty in 'Strange Tools'

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