Published 2025-11-15
Keywords
- the beauty of scientific theories, integrative, simplicity, transition, aesthetic values
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Abstract
This aims of research is to explore how to define the beauty of scientific theories for scientific education. Theories have the following requirements in common. First, they represent values as a kind of objectivist beauty and aim to expand and integrate new knowledge into simple forms. Second, they share objectivist beauty. Usefulness as a non-human value and the transition as subjectivist beauty can enhance psychological elements that heightens the experience of the values that constitute the beauty of scientific theories. We will discuss what values are involved in the evaluation of the aesthetic beauty of scientific theories. Then, we will investigate how such aesthetic values influence the development and motivation of scientific theories.