Something beautiful or ugly should elicit some type of emotion in us. It is our interpretation of this emotion that allows us to judge is something is beautiful or not. Something which elicits no emotion is likely not to be judged as beautiful or ugly. However, all we have described so far is that beauty will cause emotion, yet we have not been able to define this emotion to any degree better than we were able to define the beauty which caused it.

I could simply recite and discuss some of the arguments made about beauty, and this would be a great exercise in linear creativity. I wish, instead, to use lateral creativity and try and answer this question using principles from a completely unrelated discipline: statistics and mathematics. I hope to explore the meaning of beauty by exploring what correlation it has to other terms which have a better connection to defined emotions. I also wish to explore an individuals view of beauty in comparison to the views of a larger collective group.

Suppose you are a person which thinks that everything blue is beautiful. The more blue something is, the more beautiful it is, while something which has no blue shade is not at all beautiful. There is a direct correlation between something being blue and something being beautiful, at least to you there is. If we could quantify the beauty of an object, its measure could increase or decrease uniformly with the measure of the amount of blue in the object. This would be a 100% correlation. If however, we see that some objects may be more or less beautiful independent of the amount of blue in the object, we would see a correlation of less than 100%.

Correlations greater than 80% or so are strong, meaning that there is most definately some sort of connection between the two quantitative measures. Correlations greater than 60% are still significant, yet not quite as strong. Even correlations greater than 20% merit notice, although should not be considered too seriously.

Now suppose we could find the correlations between the adjective, beautiful, and other adjectives: ugly, exciting, peaceful, mysterious, ordinary, complex, simple, virtuous, and valuable. The emotions connected with these adjectives is a little easier to understand, so by finding how these other adjectives correlate to the term beautiful, we can understand better the emotions that beauty invokes in us.

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Don’t be concerned that I’m not taking notes in my classes any more.

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It makes me think, what will happen today in our scientific and artistic endeavors with government spending cuts. Will our scientific and technological improvements be hindered ? Can private or public businesses support the artists and scientists that in previous eras were supported by goverment?

What will happen to society one we give up on our creativity?

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Oh woman of my desires,
tell me who thou art,
and from what land thou comest
or if thou art my neighbor.

Dreaming is my release,
when I almost see thee,
God bid me sleep a thousand years.

The thought of you, like tasting pure light.
Oh sweet taste lingers on my tongue,
with the gentle breeze of righteousness.
Yet how should I have this taste, which I know not?

Perhaps we’ve spoken, though not with voice.
Ordered letters made of light;
my fingers type, yet they would hold thine tight

My commitment to thee, would not be weefy,
strong and enduring, like literature itself.
The definity of words of love, they speak of thee,
oh, woman, wilt thou lovest me?

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Reformation had profound effect on Catholic church, and people within the church questioned why Luther suceeded so successfully.

Contributions – drama, light, shade, perspective, exaggeration, elaboration (under tight control), virtuosity

Caravaggio – Italian, wild, alcoholic.

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Ordinary characters speak in prose. Those who are more involved in plot, speak in a more rythmic pattern. When Romeo and Juliet speak, (S. wants to stop the work in almost a bubble where no one else interferes), they speak in full rhymed verse.

Romeo means pilgram.

Sonnets.
A,B,A,B,C,D,C,D (last two wrap up the whole thing), scene in the beginning, complication, then resolve.

Sonnet 29 is a love sonnet.

S. solidified the English language (Like Dante for Italian and Luter for German). Coined 2000 new words (cretical, obscene, forfathers, frugal, summit…).

Why did S. write 37 plays and draw from resources of mind and vocabulary? He had to make a living and support his family. He really did love language and drama. He also wrote as fulfilment of duty to friends.

It is kind of sad that he didn’t spend much time with his family.

English language was solitified through the KJV. Wycliffe (1378) did first translation, and Tyndale version expanded/refined it a little bit. KJ I assembled group of scholars, and told them they could look at any version of bible (English/Lutheran), and wanted a version without commentary nor side notes. Go back to orginal greek or hebrew as much as possible.

Adonai (Hebrew word for Lord). Germans took german verson of YHWH (JHVH) and used vowell from adonai.

Some Hebrew idioms were used in the KJV, and translated directly: to fall flatt on his face

Also greek influences “and it came to pass”

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Father – Henry VII (second of tutor kings) – Had been war of roses.

Oldest male son, other male sons, then oldest daughter, then goes to uncles etc.
Edward
Bloody Mary Tutor
Elizabeth

Elizabeth was born illegitimatly under catholic system, so she was considered an illegit queen. Used female friendliness with different sides of the court. Also went out and visited the people and was friendly with them and gained popularity.

Lived free by visiting Lords.

Just jumped out of the war.

Raised level of merchant class.

Started privateers – sanctioned pirates – attacked spanish

Religious problems – didn’t enact revenge, but desolved ites to catholicism. The puritan zealots (calvinists) wanted revenge.

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Protestant separation — largely instegated by ML and others who followed.

Catholic Church in 15th Century
Babylonian captivity – NOT ancient captivity of Jews – Catholic church headquarters moved to France, which wasn’t liked (called B. captivity), moved back. Also, there were up to three different contending popes.

Money collection – payment for ordinances (communion was free), but other ordinances had a fee (baptism, death, last rights) – alms for the dead (payment for prayers for dead who needed help) – begging friars (monks who lived on alms on others) – tithe on land (given to bishops and high leadership) – bequeathing of property (on deathbed, someone needing instead righteous deed would give it to the church. These things were irritated.

Corruption (some) – pre-teen bishops (families would buy a kid a bishopric, and they would be set for life – moral decay (priests, nuns, sexual union, sexual deviations – illiterate priests – monks became politicians

Wycliffe – translated Bible into English (much of KJV comes from this translation), wrote 12 reforms

Jan Hus – Bohemia – critisized church – and protected by holy roman emperor, until emperor died, and then Jan Hus was called to Rome and tried in church inquisition, and emperor promised safety, but church condemned him to death.

Martin Luther
From humble family. His father wanted him to become a lawyer. But in a lightning storm, he promised his life to God, and when he was saved from the storm, he kept his promise and became a monk, and he went to school and became a professor of theology. His dad didn’t approve. As a monk, he became upset with his sinfulness (saving up prayers).

Rome sent Eck, and debated Luther about the thesis. Eck asked ML if Jan Hus was correctly killed. If Luther said ‘no’ he was denying authority, and if ML said ‘yes’ then Eck could have said, ‘lets kill you’. ML said the pope was wrong to kill Jan Hus, and he said critisizism of pope was acceptable.

Pope told ML to shut up (sent letter), but ML just burnt the letter.

Jesuits were armies of monks sent to convince people against protestantism.

People in Catholic countries we denied catholicism were tried.

Zwingli – anabaptists (baptised again) – believed that protestant church should not only separate themselves religiously, but politically.

Calvin – French. Took over as protestant leader in Geneva. Predestination

France – King Francis I, strongly catholic. When died, Hentry II married Catherine d’Medici, and had three sons who died without children. Catherine ruled France. St. Bartholomews Day Massacre, where hugonaghts were slaughtered throughout France. New dynasty came into power, Henry of Navarre (was protestant, but then became catholic to aquire the thrown), and issued Edict of Nantes which proclaimed tolleration (for awhile).

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