Commentary: Commentary: Beauty Requires Thought

Commentary: Beauty Requires Thought

Beauty Requires Thought

The experience of beauty is a pleasure, but common sense and philosophy suggest that feeling beauty differs from sensuous pleasures such as eating or sex. Immanuel Kant [1, 2] claimed that experiencing beauty requires thought but that sensuous pleasure can be enjoyed without thought and cannot be beautiful. These venerable hypotheses persist in models of aesthetic processing [3-7] but have neve...

COMMENTARY The Units Of Thought

That associative processing provides the vehicle of thought is a long-standing idea. We describe here observations from cognitive neuroimaging that elucidate the neural processing that mediates this element. This account further allows a more specific ascription of a cognitive function to the brain’s ‘‘default’’ activity in mindwandering. We extend this account to argue that one primary outcome...

INVITED COMMENTARY Receptor regulation – food for thought

The regulation of circulating peptide hormones has been amenable to study for some four decades now, since the development of radioimmunoassay. The ability to measure these molecules sensitively and specifically revolutionised endocrinology by allowing elucidation of their role in physiology, as well as making possible the diagnosis of diseases of their underand overexpression. It was later fou...

Adornment in Quran Commentary

The holy Quran has dealt with women`s adornment and its decree in 33 of Ahzab and 60 of Nur. The proposed definitions from the commentators and jurisprudents are various but similar to each other. This paper intends to explain the concept and limit of adornment precisely. Analysis of adornment elements indicates that the domain of women’s adornment is wider than manifesting embellishment and ad...