John Scott- Phenomenology

Today we talked about the phenomological approach and I was pretty confused about it at first. I had to spend some time thinking about it and googling it to really understand what it was talking about. It is viewing things through our own experiences. In the phenomological approach, the scientific method does not apply. It is viewing and experiencing the world through your own experiences and not through rigidity. It is important to this class because it allows for many interpretations of what is beautiful. It allows each of us to individually classify what is beautiful and not make it dependant on anyone else. Valuing beauty becomes more subjective and less objective. According to the phenomological approach, beauty becomes a thing that we ascribe and it allows for beauty to be in the eye of the beholder. This is a great way to start off the class so we can understand the issues behind valuing the aesthetic nature of things.