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1. Aesthetics: Is this image aesthetically pleasing to you? Why or why not?. [100%] 2023-12-30 [Aesthetics]
2. Aesthetics: Aesthetics is a discipline of philosophy which deals with understanding aesthetic evaluation and judgment through the application of reason. Aesthetics does not make judgments about the quality of works of art, but rather tries to apply reason to judgments others ... [100%] 2023-10-04
3. Aesthetics: Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it is a species of value theory or axiology, which is the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is closely associated with ... [100%] 2023-02-03
4. Aesthetics: Aesthetics is the philosophical study of the nature and experience of art and beauty. Greek scholars believed that the Golden Ratio (also called divine proportion) is the key to beauty. [100%] 2023-02-23 [Beauty] [Art]...
5. Aesthetics: Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it is a species of value theory or axiology, which is the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is closely associated with ... [100%] 2023-02-04
6. Aesthetics: Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed ... (Branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste) [100%] 2024-01-13 [Aesthetics] [1730s neologisms]...
7. Aesthetics: Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art. Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgements ... (Branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste) [100%] 2024-05-23 [Aesthetics] [1730s neologisms]...
8. Aesthetics: Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art. Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgements ... (Social) [100%] 2024-08-16 [Humanities]
9. Croce’s Aesthetics: The Neapolitan Benedetto Croce (1860–1952) was a dominant figure in the first half of the twentieth century in aesthetics and literary criticism, and to lesser but not inconsiderable extent in philosophy generally. But his fame did not last, either ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-07-23
10. Gadamer’s Aesthetics: Gadamer (1900–2002) does not provide an account of the aesthetic in any customary sense. His approach to art runs, in many ways, against conventional philosophical expectations. (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-04-11
11. Beardsley’s Aesthetics: Monroe Beardsley (1915–1985) was born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University (B.A. 1936, Ph.D. (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-24
12. Feminist Aesthetics: “Feminist aesthetics” does not label a variety of aesthetics in the way that, for example, the terms “virtue theory” and “naturalized epistemology” qualify types of ethics and theories of knowledge. Rather, to refer to feminist aesthetics is to identify a ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-28
13. Wittgenstein’s Aesthetics: Given the extreme importance that Wittgenstein attached to the aesthetic dimension of life, it is in one sense surprising that he wrote so little on the subject. It is true that we have the notes assembled from his lectures on ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-01-21
14. Collingwood’s Aesthetics: Collingwood's Aesthetics First published Tue Aug 21, 2007; substantive revision Tue Nov 30, 2021 R. Collingwood (1889-1943) was primarily a philosopher of history, a metaphysican and archaeologist, and considered his work in aesthetics--the principal work being his ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-24
15. Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics: The focus of this entry is on Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, which forms part of his organic philosophical system, but which can be appreciated and assessed to some extent on its own terms (for ways in which his aesthetic insights ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-24
16. Existentialist Aesthetics: Many of the philosophers commonly described as “existentialist” have made original and decisive contributions to aesthetic thinking. In most cases, a substantial involvement in artistic practice (as novelists, playwrights or musicians) nourished their thinking on aesthetic experience. (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-02-25
17. Hegel’s Aesthetics: G.W.F. Hegel’s aesthetics, or philosophy of art, forms part of the extraordinarily rich German aesthetic tradition that stretches from J.J. (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-24
18. Plato’s Aesthetics: If aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into art and beauty (or “aesthetic value”), the striking feature of Plato’s dialogues is that he devotes as much time as he does to both topics and yet treats them oppositely. Art, mostly ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-24
19. Hume’s Aesthetics: David Hume’s views on aesthetic theory and the philosophy of art are to be found in his work on moral theory and in several essays. Although there is a tendency to emphasize the two essays devoted to art, “Of ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-02-20
20. Environmental Aesthetics: Environmental aesthetics is a relatively new sub-field of philosophical aesthetics. It arose within analytic aesthetics in the last third of the twentieth century. (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-24
21. Aristotle’s Aesthetics: The term “aesthetics”, though deriving from the Greek (aisthetikos meaning “related to sense experience”), is a modern one, forged by Baumgarten as the title of his main book (Aesthetica, 1750). Only later did it come to name an entire field ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-03-02
22. Japanese Aesthetics: Although the Japanese have been producing great art and writing about it for many centuries, including a rich tradition of poetics going back a millennium, the philosophical discipline in Japan corresponding to Western “aesthetics” did not get underway until the ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-02-20
23. Goodman’s Aesthetics: Nelson Goodman has certainly been one of the most influential figures in contemporary aesthetics and analytic philosophy in general (in addition to aesthetics, his contributions cover the areas of applied logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science). His Languages of ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-02-20
24. Dewey’s Aesthetics: John Dewey is, with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, one of the leading early figures of the school of American Pragmatists. He has also had a great deal of influence in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-02-07
25. Heidegger’s Aesthetics: Heidegger is against the modern tradition of philosophical “aesthetics” because he is for the true “work of art” which, he argues, the aesthetic approach to art eclipses. Heidegger’s critique of aesthetics and his advocacy of art thus form a ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-03-07
26. Zeltiq Aesthetics: Zeltiq Aesthetics is a subsidiary of AbbVie based in Pleasanton, California that markets and licenses devices used for cryolipolysis procedures. The company was founded in 2005 and raised $75 million in funding before going public in 2011. [70%] 2024-04-11 [Medical technology companies of the United States] [American companies established in 2005]...
27. Brother Bear Aesthetics: Nonapplicable. [57%] 2023-12-25 [Film] [Cinema Aesthetics]...
28. Aesthetics of science: Aesthetics of science is the study of beauty and matters of taste within the scientific endeavour. Aesthetic features like simplicity, elegance and symmetry are sources of wonder and awe for many scientists, thus motivating scientific pursuit. (Branch of philosophy) [57%] 2023-12-26 [Applied aesthetics]
29. Aesthetics and usability: “The importance of beauty, which we now refer to as “aesthetics”—of man, nature, or artefacts—has been recognized since antiquity. Vitruvius, the first systematic theoretician of architecture (1st Century BC), counted beauty among architecture's three basic requirements (Kruft ... [57%] 2024-01-13
30. Encyclopedia of Aesthetics: Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, published in 1998 by Oxford University Press, is an encyclopedia that covers philosophical, historical, sociological, and biographical aspects of Art and Aesthetics worldwide. The second edition (2014) is now available online as part of Oxford Art Online. (Art encyclopedia by Oxford University Press) [57%] 2023-12-30 [English-language encyclopedias] [Encyclopedias of philosophy]...
31. Cinema aesthetics: Any concrete improvements made by February 25, 2024 may allow it to be kept. You may remove {{proposed deletion}} from this resource's source text to contest this proposal, with or without discussion. [70%] 2023-12-05 [Film] [Cinema Aesthetics]...
32. Cognitivism (aesthetics): Aesthetic cognitivism is a methodology in the philosophy of art, particularly audience responses to art, that relies on research in cognitive psychology. Although the term is used more in humanistic disciplines than scientific ones, the methodology is inherently interdisciplinary due ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-09-29 [Cognitive psychology] [Concepts in aesthetics]...
33. Theological aesthetics: Theological aesthetics is the interdisciplinary study of theology and aesthetics, and has been defined as being "concerned with questions about God and issues in theology in the light of and perceived through sense knowledge (sensation, feeling, imagination), through beauty, and ... (Religion) [70%] 2023-10-05 [Theology]
34. Iki (aesthetics): Iki (粋/いき, roughly "chic, stylish") is a Japanese aesthetical concept thought to have originated amongst the merchant classes of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) in Edo period Japan. Iki came to prominence within the context of the official social hierarchy of Edo ... (Aesthetics) [70%] 2023-09-17 [Concepts in aesthetics] [Japanese aesthetics]...
35. Medieval aesthetics: Medieval aesthetics refers to the general philosophy of beauty during the Medieval period. Although Aesthetics did not exist as a field of study during the Middle Ages, influential thinkers active during the period did discuss the nature of beauty and ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-10-07 [Medieval philosophy]
36. Iki (aesthetics): Iki (粋/いき, roughly "chic, stylish") is a Japanese aesthetical concept thought to have originated amongst the merchant classes of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) in Edo period Japan . Iki came to prominence within the context of the official social hierarchy of Edo ... (Aesthetics) [70%] 2023-11-02 [Concepts in aesthetics]
37. Japanese aesthetics: Japanese aesthetics comprise a set of ancient ideals that include wabi (transient and stark beauty), sabi (the beauty of natural patina and aging), and yūgen (profound grace and subtlety). These ideals, and others, underpin much of Japanese cultural and aesthetic ... (Set of ancient and modern ideals) [70%] 2023-11-23 [Japanese aesthetics] [Concepts in aesthetics]...
38. Experimental aesthetics: Experimental aesthetics is a field of psychology founded by Gustav Theodor Fechner in the 19th century. According to Fechner, aesthetics is an experiential perception which is empirically comprehensible in light of the characteristics of the subject undergoing the experience and ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-11-10 [Cognitive psychology]
39. Indian aesthetics: Indian art evolved with an emphasis on inducing special spiritual or philosophical states in the audience, or with representing them symbolically. The theory of rasas still forms the aesthetic underpinning of all Indian classical dance and theatre, such as Bharatanatyam ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-09-27 [Indian philosophy]
40. Rapture (aesthetics): Rapture or aesthetic rapture is a supreme experience or state affected by art in conjuntion with imagination. It is an aesthetic concept within the discourse on the function of art. (Aesthetics) [70%] 2024-01-09 [Concepts in aesthetics]
41. Evolutionary aesthetics: Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success. Based on this theory, things like color preference, preferred mate body ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-09-18 [Sociobiology] [Human evolution]...