Essays on Aesthetics

Introduction What is Aesthetics? The term aesthetics refers to a branch of philosophy, which deals with: ‘such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgments concerning works of art, and the principles underlying or...

The philosophy of the judgment of aesthetics has been historically dominated by 18th century assertions of ‘good’ and ‘beautiful’. Notable German enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant proposes in his 1790 thesis The Critique of Judgment, that the all-pervading aesthetic experience which transcends one in reverberation to art can be attributed to “reflective judgments” described by the...

“Aesthetic knowledge is a fundamental dimension of the human culture, which was and still is crucial to the development of scientific understanding of the natural world.” The word aesthetic can refer to people, objects/lands, and a more important points of view. There is no real accepted definition of Aesthetic behavior, which is the concern with...

In ‘Aesthetics and the Value of Nature’, Janna Thompson proposed that the natural environment has many characteristics similar to most great works of art. For this reason, the natural environment has “objectively aesthetically value” same as the works of art. According to the description of Thompson, objective value refers to the value not judged by...