PHIL 1361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Greater Adjutant, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Stoicism

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1361
• Professor: C.Mag Uidhir

Document Summary

Live in garbage dumps and nearby wetlands in india. Omnivores but mainly eat the decaying flesh of dead animals. Used to be known for eating human corpses, they now largely eat trash, small animals and animal and human waste. The bulk of aesthetics focuses on art. This doesn"t distinguish between natural and human artifacts, so it works for both. Stoics: the whole world is beautiful because the universe is the most perfect work of art. Medieval christian philosophers: god created the world. God is perfect and created the world perfectly. While we may not perceive the beauty, god"s purpose gave the world beauty. St. augustine: we may not see the beauty of the world because we are within the world. We are not able to see the whole picture. From our small perspective, we may miss the overall harmony or unity of the world as a whole.