What is Aesthetics? (Philosophy of Art)

A brief description of the field of Aesthetics, and the questions covered therein, such as beauty, art, the sublime and more, including the relation between Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art.

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[mickisei]

I still don't know how to use this word properly... i feel like people use this word so much for everything that they've ruined the actual use of the word.

[Alianger]

I thought it was just something you said under 80s sounding music vids.

[rollysalonga]

in my opinion aesthetics is a emotion about appreciating the art or the beauty like the Greek statue you can feel something that you can't explain When you look at the poses of some statue thats the aesthetics i mean not that pose but a emotion or feeling i mean how you feel when you see those pose example michael angelo' david statue there are some people i know my english is bad but i know there are some people here who could understand me aesthetics is different to many people why because we have a different perspective also

[ppnaoss]

The thing about the word aesthetic is that you never know if someone actually knows what it means or if they just wanna sound artsy
Example: thAts So AEstHeTiC.

[____]

That is exactly what I was explaining to people.
They never listened to me-

[tiffanyd.]

That was very insightful thank you. I hope to learn more about this pleasurable branch of philosophy.

[peterkraus]

Some visual examples would be helpful. As the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words."

[ジュレジュ]

Aesthetics to me is the philosophical examination of concepts related to the evaluation and content of sense-experience. Philosophy of art is distinct, and draws from aesthetics, in the same way that literary theory may draw from linguistics, philosophy of language, etc.

[tercuskuhnsis]

I think that aesthetics and ethics are the same thing glued by the value theory with a epicurean orientation

[seijancarter]

for me, aesthetic is when i see something not only so beautiful but so amazing that it makes me feel a way that I would've never thought before could be felt. its like a different persective of everything, for example cottagecore aesthetic is a way i would've never thought of and old cottage with overgrown vines. its like... never mind it way to hard for me to completetly explain with wordswhat i think

[randomrandom]

Dude our homework was to make philosophical questions on aesthetics? And I still dont have any idea what to write geez

[meredithinserra]

I would add that aesthetics isn't only about beauty, but MEANING too!

[wavezz]

I looked this up because I didn't know what people meant when they say, "I just have it sitting here for the aesthetics".

[north_star_yt]

I believe anything that moves you or you’re in awe of is consider “Art” because I also believe that art is a bridge between man and the divine. Art is meant to be transcendental and a vehicle of transportation to make contact with a higher power. If something, anything, can do that for a human’s experience, then that is art my friends. 🕊❤

[MoleDownunder]

I think that aesthetical judgements are commonly and wrongly mixed with ethical judgements. Ethical judgements deal with justice and what is right and wrong. Aesthetical judgements deal with cost/benefit, subjective preferences, etc. It can be personal or interpersonal. I would even say some virtues are aesthetical. I think ethics and aesthetics can be joined together using Value Theory, under Universally Preferable Behaviour. Perhaps we call this realm morality. Or perhaps we call this realm ethics and say aesthetics and morality is a part of ethics. But as we have it now where aesthetics is seperated from ethics and morality, that is a bad thing.

[WindowsXP_YT]

Etymology:
From aesthetic + -ics.
Noun:
aesthetics (usually uncountable, plural aesthetics)

[MrCounsel]

I think aesthetics is the dimension of pleasantness in anything humans perceive. Like color, it lives in a spectrum. It arises from mental activity and is subject to individual perception. While there are outliers, it is possible to get stabdard deviations, averages, etc of where in the spectrum perceptions reside.

[Blazer]

Hey, could you please give a wider definition of aesthetics? I mean, you said that studies beauty & art but then you argue that for some philosophers aesthetics should only study beauty. Now, I know that there exists the aesthetics of the ugly or the disgusting so... what would happen there?

[Star_berriezz]

I'm still kind of confused but what I understood is that aesthetic is what you think of something like the beauty of something and the Art of something right or is there a lot more to that

[zainabmusa]

For me, aesthetics mean something simple and beauty. Well. Thats for me.