My first philosophy post. Let’s see how it goes. The first step in any discussion of aesthetics is to clear away the intellectual rubble of subjectivist. I am not sure what I could say in rebuttal to someone who thinks that Lucien Freud and nursery school drawings are fundamentally the same and that only our arbitrary tastes distinguish them. So, instead I’ll just point out the craziness of that conclusion and given an alternative account of Beauty, better fitting our intuition that good art has a genuine value that toddler scribbles lack.
Three Problems in Aesthetics
Three Problems in Aesthetics
Three Problems in Aesthetics
My first philosophy post. Let’s see how it goes. The first step in any discussion of aesthetics is to clear away the intellectual rubble of subjectivist. I am not sure what I could say in rebuttal to someone who thinks that Lucien Freud and nursery school drawings are fundamentally the same and that only our arbitrary tastes distinguish them. So, instead I’ll just point out the craziness of that conclusion and given an alternative account of Beauty, better fitting our intuition that good art has a genuine value that toddler scribbles lack.