This article is dedicated to the interpretation of aesthetic thought Nicolai Hartmann and Edmund Burke, that is, their different understandings sublime, its relation beautiful. While Hartmann?s sublime an value subordinate beauty, Burke defines as a form experience on same level forms understanding based his analysis experience, which includes passions, states soul sensible qualities objects, w...

It is well established that aesthetic appreciation is related with activity in several different brain regions. The identification of the neural correlates of beauty or liking ratings has been the focus of most prior studies. Not much attention has been directed towards the fact that humans are surrounded by objects that lead them to experience aesthetic indifference or leave them with a negati...

This study examines previously unexplored visual representations of the natural world published in Pandji Masjarakat magazine 1960. Known at time as most popular Islamic Indonesia, this publication not only discussed teachings hitherto understood, but also provided ample space for drawings, paintings, and photographs world. argues that visualizations were aimed providing its Muslim readers all ...

This study capitalizes on individual episodic memories to investigate the question, how dif-ferent environments affect us on a neural level. Instead of using predefined environmental stimuli, this study relied on individual representations of beauty and pleasure. Drawing upon episodic memories we conducted two experiments. Healthy subjects imagined pleasant and non-pleasant environments, as wel...

Beautiful outdoor locations are protected by governments and have recently been shown to be associated with better health. But what makes an outdoor space beautiful? Does a beautiful outdoor location differ from an outdoor location that is simply natural? Here, we explore whether ratings of over 200 000 images of Great Britain from the online game Scenic-Or-Not, combined with hundreds of image ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of thermocycling on microleakage beneath brackets bonded with an orthodontic composite and different flowable materials. Brackets were bonded to 200 bovine incisors divided into five groups: (1) Transbond XT, (2) X-Flow, (3) Dyract-Flow, (4) Admira-Flow, and (5) Beautiful-Flow. Half the teeth in each group were thermocycled. The specimens we...