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A critique on Gadamer's critique to Kant's aesthetics [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه
Critique of Kant's philosophical and epistemological plans for aesthetic judgments has taken an important step in his confrontation with the beautiful.
Neda Rahbar
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On the mathematics of beauty: beautiful images

open access: yesCoRR, 2017
In this paper, we will study the simplest kind of beauty which can be found in simple visual patterns. The proposed approach shows that aesthetically appealing patterns deliver higher amount of information over multiple levels in comparison with less aesthetically appealing patterns when the same amount of energy is used.
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THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE SUBLIME IN NATURAL SCIENCE

open access: yesZygon, 2009
The various aesthetic phenomena found repeatedly in the scientific enterprise stem from the role of God as artist. If the Creator is an artist, how and why natural scientists study the divine art work can be understood using theological aesthetics and ...
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Complex Beauty

open access: yesComplex Systems, 2015
Complex systems and their underlying convoluted networks are ubiquitous, all we need is an eye for them. They pose problems of organized complexity which cannot be approached with a reductionist method. Complexity science and its emergent sister network science both come to grips with the inherent complexity of complex systems with an holistic strategy.
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Agalmatophilic Pygmalions: Burke and Winckelmann on the Beautiful and the Sublime

open access: yesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
There is a good chance that “each critic becomes a Pygmalion” (as Leo Curran put it) when they bring the work of art to life in their narcissistic (and almost amorous) attention, unfolding its meaning so that they should be able to write their own ...
Éva Antal
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Bioaugmented constructed wetlands for denitrification of saline wastewater: A boost for both microorganisms and plants

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2020
The inhibition of salt stress on plant and microbial functions has led to the reduction of nitrogen removal capacity of constructed wetlands (CWs) under saline conditions.
Xinyi Wang   +5 more
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Beautiful destruction

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2017
Though the term ‘science fiction’ was coined somewhat later, the early twentieth century saw an enormous rise in an interest in technological tales set in the near future, mirroring a general awareness of the growing importance of science. Hans Dominik
Vanessa Cirkel-Bartelt
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Beautiful economic features of public landscaping in city beautiful

open access: yesOrnamental Horticulture, 2013
City beautiful was a movement of great reach and inspiration, which apparently, was initiated in Chicago in 1893 during the World’s Columbian Exposition. The movement’s premises were artistic, architectural, social, political and economic.
Emilson Caputo Delfino Silva   +1 more
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My Beautiful Hair

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2014
Introduction This is a problem-base-learning (PBL) teaching case intended for first-year medical school human gross anatomy during the course of anatomical dissection and discussion sessions, pertinent to the scalp, and the effect trauma may have on ...
Ernest Talarico
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Sick/Beautiful/Freak

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2012
Nonmainstream body modification practitioners actively demonstrate a confounding agency that often results in the stigmatization of their physical characteristics, their moral constitution, and their behavior.
Morgen L. Thomas
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