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Subjective & Objective aesthetical conceptons - Coggle Diagram
Subjective & Objective aesthetical conceptons
What is beauty for objectivists?
a mnd-independent feature of things
The beauty of a landscape - independent of who perceives/ whether it it's perceived
How can disagreements be explained?
by an inability to perceive this feature - a lack of taste
Where did objectivism find its most explicit articulation?
Italian Renaissance
What does the beauty of a human body depend on?
the right proportion of the different parts of the body
the overall symmetry
Alexander Baumgarten
laws of beauty = the laws of nature
can be discovered through empirical research
Aristotle, Metaphysics
beauty = order, symmerty, definiteness
What does subjectivism deny?
the mind-independent existence of beauty
What was influential for the development of this position?
John Locke's distinction
primary
the object has independent of the observer
secondary qualities
the powers in the object which can produce arouse certain ideas in the observer
Disagreements - impossible
the same object- different ideas
there's no objectively right or wrong taste