Saturday, December 13, 2014

What are the best arguments for and against objective aesthetic value? askphilosophy


My friend has appallingly bad taste in coffee, and I'm not content to write this off as a mere difference of opinion. I have a very strong intuition that beauty is not simply in the eye of the beholder, but I am not familiar enough with the literature on the subject to make an informed judgment, and I don't know where to start looking. So here's what I'm looking for:



  1. Arguments for and against objective aesthetic value. Are some things more beautiful/aesthetically better than others?

  2. Arguments for particular epistemological methods in aesthetics. Assuming that there is objective aesthetic value, how can I know that the Mona Lisa is more beautiful than the drawing taped to your refrigerator and not the other way around?







Submitted December 13, 2014 at 09:08PM by X-AnarchoBaptist-X http://ift.tt/1z5MBbK askphilosophy

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