Aesthetics

The branch of philosophy concerned with what beauty consists of, what constitutes progress in art, and how to improve standards in art.

Beauty is Objective, not merely a matter of Subjective taste. Standards in art can be improved through Conjecture and Criticism, just like any other domain of Knowledge.

Connections

• •Beauty is Objective — not reducible to personal preference
• •Aesthetic judgments are improvable through Criticism
• •Progress in art is possible, contra Pessimism
• •Relates to Morality as another domain of objective but improvable knowledge
• •Subjective experience of beauty differs from the objective fact of it