https://padlet.com/antoniojose_sison1/a9wdq4oj09ub Group 5: Reyes, Reyes, Reyes, Romillo, Sison & Valte en-us 2020-02-06 04:35:33 UTC 2020-02-10 02:04:45 UTC hello@padlet.com antoniojose_sison1 https://padlet.com/antoniojose_sison1/a9wdq4oj09ub/wish/442811839 What Adler means in Chapter 15 entitled Enjoyable Beauty of his book Six Great Ideas is that enjoyable beauty is one that is for everyone and not just art connoisseurs because as St. Thomas Aquinas defined beauty, “is that which pleases upon being seen” (Adler, 1984, p.104). This pleasure that we get comes from what Adler mentioned as our “natural craving for sensory experiences that have the quality of being pleasant rather than unpleasant” (Adler, 1984, p.105). According to Adler, beautiful objects please us when “they satisfy our desire to not just see them, but also have them” (Adler, 1984, p.105). This desire is based on the sense of sight, taste, smell, feeling, and hearing which help an individual perceive whether or not an object is beautiful. Since everyone perceives things in their own unique and distinct way, enjoyable beauty is subjective. Adler points out that we often associate the enjoyability of beauty with the sense of sight which does not fully encapsulate the definition of beauty as it would exclude certain art forms such as music and poetry. He says that instead, objects please us when they satisfy the desire of not only seeing them, but to have them as well. It is a form of seeing something with both the eyes and the mind (Adler, 1984). He talks about how Immanuel Kant mentioned about disinterested pleasure being a special character given to the object we say is beautiful. The disinterest comes from it not being in the sphere of our practical concerns but something that we contemplate upon or behold. There is no need to desire to own the object for it to be beautiful (Adler, 1984). The chapter talked a lot about the understanding of what Aquinas meant by the word seen in the definition. Adler pointed out in many examples in the chapter about how we confuse the word seen in art. What seen can refer to is how we understand or how we contemplate upon what pleases us. This means that it is not only through the mind but the mind and our senses working with one another to give us that pleasure when we see something beautiful which makes beauty enjoyable (Adler, 1984). 

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