Thoreau's Art of Living In Thoreau's Walden, he explores the art of living by presenting a dichotomy of sojourning in nature. The life of participating with nature considers living simply and wisely while cooperating with both its lowest and highest elements. Thoreau calls for a ch...

Art may be present in any form of human activity. Plato regarded art as a form of play or pastime, which was inferior to such occupations as agriculture or cookery. Schiller referred to art as a play impulse. According to Ruskin, fine art is that which the hand, the head and the heart of ma...

"Aesthetics is the name of the philosophical study of art and natural beauty" (Miller, 2004). The theory of aesthetics started controversies over its legitimate existence as a fully developed science. Alexander Baumgarten was the first who used the word "aesthetics" in 1735 to d...

Mario Livio's book The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (2002) chronicles the history, not of a person, thing, or concept, but a number. However, this number or notion of proportionality or the 'Golden Ratio' has been invested with such cultural, em...

One doesn't have to look beyond the first line on the first page of Kate Chopin's The Awakening to understand that art, music, beauty and poetry are about to come up hard against traditional values which are so firmly planted that nothing can move them. But it is because of this very ob...

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only full-length novel ever written by the legendary playwright Oscar Wilde, is one of the most notorious books of the 19th century. With its overtones of supernaturalism, its refusal to satisfy popular morality, and its portrayal of homoerotic culture, The Picture of...

The Internet has made living in today's world a lot easier. We can correspond with our friends better, gather information faster, and entertain ourselves with greater ease. This technology has become the new wave of communication and has opened so many new doors. But with this advancement in ...

'It is natural for us to seek a Standard of Taste.' (Hume) Hume was an empiricist and was influenced by the writings of another 18th century philosopher (John Locke), who believed that all knowledge is acquired through experience etc, and that the mind is a blank page in the beginning. ...