Questions tagged [aesthetics]
Aesthetics is the study of the beautiful. It is one of the classical sub-disciplines of philosophy.
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Embedding ethics in esthetics?
Reading both Arne Naess (e.g. Gandhi and Group Conflict) and Spinoza (Ethics), and reading other, later writings by Naess in which he tries to increase his reader's ecological awareness, I'm getting ...
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Is a screenshot of a picture the same picture?
Suppose one takes a screenshot of a digital picture (for example, an image displayed on a screen). Is the screenshot the same picture as the original, or is it a distinct picture that merely ...
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Schopenhauer's disparagement of Newton's color theory
Schopenhauer, in The World as Will and Representation I.15, writes [italics in original, bolding is mine]:
In my opinion ... every error is an inference from consequent to ground. ... [T]he
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What is the origin of things such as morality, jealousy, beauty etc?
I recently took a course on Social and political philosophy in my college. There I read about Hobbes, in his state of nature he says life is short, nasty, ugly and brutish. Thus, I started to wonder ...
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Is this a known approach to characterizing art?
IEP identifies seven constraints on a definition of art. To address these facts, I conjecture:
(A) Aesthetic properties form an HPC ([iv]), while techniques that often but not always endow such ...
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Has anyone tried to integrate (the normative presuppositions and implications of) Roman Jacobson's poetics with its criticisms?
Roman Jacobson was one of the founders of structural linguistics, hugely influential for structuralist philosophy, linguistics in general, and literary criticism. In his study "Linguistics and ...
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Aura in Literature [closed]
Walter Benjamin brought about this notion that art must have "aura". I wanted to understand how this notion of aura connects to literature in particular. Does mass publication of a novel ...
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Neo-Aristotelian theories of art and aesthetics?
Are there any interesting neo-Aristotelian approaches to art and aesthetics that you're familiar with?
In general, I really appreciate Aristotelian philosophy, but I find the classic thesis art = ...
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Is Mathematical Beauty an Objective Property or a Subjective Experience?
Mathematicians often speak of the beauty of a proof, an equation, or a structure.
Gauss called mathematics the “queen of the sciences,” and Hardy famously said, “A mathematician, like a painter or a ...
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How do smell and (food) taste fit into aesthetics?
Under aesthetic realism, one might posit that some objects are beautiful, not merely because they're perceived as such by someone, but in an absolute sense, by virtue of exhibiting or possessing some ...
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What is beauty to the aesthetic realist? [closed]
If two moral realists disagree on every moral principle and claim, they can still identify a common property that they are ascribing to that which they consider to be right/wrong. Right/wrong isn't ...
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Why is Music almost always Paired with other Activities?
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I had a conversation with a friend a few month ago about how music as an end to itself is a fairly modern idea. For thousands of years, music was used to occupancy plays, religious ...
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Are maths a form of art?
I came across this idea in the Effective Altruism forum Less Wrong. Here is the link to the post. It says math has the characteristics of an art. But I conjecture something further: that math is ...
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Is Pop Art and Mass-Produced Cinema Considered Art?
Exploring Definitions and Historical Perspectives
Recently, I had a discussion with a friend who argued that pop art (e.g., mass-produced cinema) and anything created for mass consumption, ...
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Does beauty exist only in consciousness?
In a world without conscious beings, would beauty still exist? My belief is that beauty is purely subjective and can only exist in the mind. I don't think there is such a thing as objective beauty. ...
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