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Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy. It is the study of
art and beauty. Together with ethics it is part of
axiology which is the philosophy of what people like.
Aesthetic philosophers ask what people like to look at,
hear, feel, smell or taste, and why they like these
things. Aesthetic philosophers also ask if art has any
value. For example, they may ask if some art that nobody
likes and that nobody wants is art at all, or if it is
something else.
Plato, Aristotle, and Immanuel Kant are some important
philosophers of aesthetics. |
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Subjectivism
One theory in aesthetics is called subjectivism.
Subjectivism says that each person has their own sense
of beauty. So, the only way of judging something's
beauty is if people say it is beautiful. A common way of
describing this is "Beauty is in the eye of the
beholder". Subjectivism also says, for the same reason,
that something is art simply because someone says it is
art. This is backed up by the experience. even though
people feel they find something beautiful, they may not
be able to explain why. |
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Objectivism
Many objectivist theories of beauty have been offered,
going from the ancient ideas of Plato and Aristotle
(e.g., the golden mean,) which still have great appeal
in their own way to neuroscience research into the
brain's response to images and other sense information.
At the moment, even though we do not know what people
are thinking, brain-scan technology can identify when
people are responding pleasurably to images, providing
some clue as to how certain images affect some people. |
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