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What’s Aesthetic Philosophy?

Aesthetic philosophy, or aesthetics, is the study of beauty, art, taste, and how people experience them. It also examines how people form judgments about these experiences.

What does aesthetic philosophy study?

Beauty: The nature of beauty and what makes something beautiful

Taste: How people judge the quality of art, music, and other experiences

Art: How artists create art, and how people experience and evaluate it

Culture: How art and culture relate to each other

Nature: How people experience nature and how it relates to art and culture

How does aesthetic philosophy explain experiences?

Aesthetic philosophy uses general philosophical principles to explain the value of sensory experiences

Aesthetic philosophy considers how people perceive objects and environments through their senses

Aesthetic philosophy considers how people form judgments about the value of art and other experiences

Who has contributed to aesthetic philosophy?

Confucius: Emphasized the role of the arts in broadening human nature

Mozi: Argued that the arts were classist and wasteful

Immanuel Kant: Argued that people make judgments of beauty when they perceive the form of an object without considering its function

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Argued that beautiful art must present the divine in human form

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