UNPACKING THE SELF

Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

- Corita Kent
 THE
PHYSICAL
SELF
 “Beauty is when you can appreciate
yourself. When you love yourself, that’s
when your most beautiful.”
~ Zoe Kravitz
 Two most – debated views about beauty:

What
philosophers think 1.Beauty is objective
about beauty
2.Beauty is subjective
  St. Augustine – asked whether things
are beautiful because it gave delight or
whether it gave delight because it was
Western beautiful
philosophers who  Plato – beauty exist in the realm of
view beauty as an Forms, and that objects are found
objective quality: beautiful because they are a reflection of
the idea of beauty that already exist in
the realm of Forms
 Aristotle – chief forms of
Western beauty are order, symmetry, and
philosophers who definiteness, that can be
view beauty as an
objective quality: demonstrated by mathematical
science
  David Hume – beauty is no quality in
things themselves: It exists merely in the
mind which contemplates them; and
Philosophers who each mind perceives a different beauty.
associated beauty One person even perceive deformity,
with pleasure as a where another is sensible of beauty, and
personal preference every individual ought to acquiesce in
his own sentiment, without pretending to
regulate those of others.
  Immanuel Kant – “The judgment
of taste is therefore not a judgment
Philosophers who of cognition, and is consequently
associated beauty not logical but aesthetical, by
with pleasure as a
personal preference which we understand that whose
determining ground can be no other
than subjective.”
  Francis Hutcheson – “The
perception of beauty does depend
on the external sense of sight,
however, the internal sense of
Philosophers who
associated beauty beauty operates as an internal or
with pleasure as a reflex. The same is the case with
personal preference hearing: hearing music does not
necessarily give the perception of
harmony as it is distinct from the
hearing.
What did Psychology
discover about
beauty?
 An error in reasoning,
evaluating, remembering, or
any other mental process that is
COGNITIVE often a result of holding onto
BIAS one’s preferences and beliefs
regardless of contrary
information
  Physical attractiveness stereotype
 “What is beautiful is good”
principle

HALO  Tendency of people to rate

attractive individuals more
EFFECT favorably for their personality
traits or characteristic as
compared to those who are less
attractive
The Relationship Between
Body Image and Self -
Esteem
  Coined by William James
 The number of successes a person
SELF – achieves in the domains of life

ESTEEM that are important to him or her,

divided by the number of failures
that occurred in those areas
 Attitude concerning one’s
worth as a person
SELF – How you value yourself
ESTEEM and how you feel others
value you
 How you view your
physical body, whether
BODY you feel you are attractive,
IMAGE and how you feel some
other people like your
looks