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This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and contemporary cognitive science.
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John Schmidt
reviewed Real People: Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments on March 10, 2006
Real People
2020-11 - The Analysis of Beauty. William Hogarth (Author). 1753. 138 Pages
A classic book famous for its advocacy of the serpentine line as the key to visual appeal and beauty. The text is wordy and requires some effort to read. The book delves deep into; architecture, the natural world, painting technique, anatomy, English Country Dancing. There is a section on painting that completely captivated me. The author was describing how to painting human skin … how the technique is different depending where on the body the skin is. He described the knowledge of blood vessel and veins and their color properties below the skin. How the artist needed to replicate that and build up the skin color from below the dermis to the surface in order to achieve life like results. Wow! On the whole I was already familiar with his notion of the serpentine and the oval from my reading other books and my experience with English Country Dancing. In some ways this is a niche book for artists but it also offers fantastic insight into beauty norms of a given era. What they held as beauty and how to achieve that. I am sure I will never look at a piece of art, or structure, or dancing figures in quite the same way again … I will likely be trying to see the serpentine ….
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