Aesthetics

Aesthetics

Terms relating to the branch of philosophy that examines the creation and appreciation of art, beauty, and taste.

Contributors in Aesthetics

Aesthetics

First formulated in detail by Kant in the eighteenth century, aesthetic judgment is a feeling-based judgment in which an object is found beautiful, and that we are entitled to make such a judgment ...

aesthetic qualities

Philosophy; Aesthetics

It is generally agreed among philosophers that there is an important distinction between the aesthetic qualities of objects, especially art objects, and their nonaesthetic qualities. For example, ...