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RC Discussion for CAT 2012 Verbal

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Judgments of aesthetic value rely on our ability to discriminate at a sensory level. Aesthetics examines our affective domain response to an object or phenomenon. Immanuel Kant, writing in 1790, observes of a man "If he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if someone else corrects his terms and reminds him to say instead: It is agreeable to me," because "Everyone has his own (sense of) taste". The case of "beauty" is different from mere "agreeableness" because, "If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things."

Aesthetic judgments may be culturally conditioned to some extent. Victorians in Britain often saw African sculpture as ugly, but just a few decades later, Edwardian audiences saw the same sculptures as being beautiful. The Abuse of Beauty, Evaluations of beauty may well be linked to desirability, perhaps even to sexual desirability. Thus, judgments of aesthetic value can become linked to judgments of economic, political, or moral value. We might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signifies for us over-consumption and offends our political or moral values.

Anthropology, especially the savanna hypothesis proposed by Gordon Orians and others, predicts that some of the positive aesthetics that people have are based on innate knowledge of productive human habitats. It had been shown that people prefer and feel happier looking at trees with spreading forms much more than looking at trees with other forms, or non-tree objects; also Bright green colors, linked with healthy plants with good nutrient qualities, were more calming than other tree colors, including less bright greens and oranges.

Q1)According to the author the contextual aspect of beauty, as mentioned in paragraph 2, is reflected by:

1) Its objectivity and universality.
2) Mankind's innate qualities.
3) Its linkages with value judgments.
4) Its desirability as a status symbol.

Q2)Aesthetics, from an anthropological perspective, tends to reflect:

1) An innate preference for certain colours.
2) An instinctive utilitarian outlook.
3) An instinctive ability to discriminate shapes.
4) An innate sense of intellectual superiority.

Q3)Beauty as a 'property of things' implies:

1) Individualistic interpretation of the nature of things.
2) The antithetical nature of beauty and 'agreeableness.'
3) An element of commonality and objectivity in the evaluation
of things.
4) An innate sense of taste.
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