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Epicurus and his philosophy of pleasure have been controversial for over 2000 years. One reason is our tendency to reject pleasure as a moral good. We usually think of charity, compassion, humility, wisdom, honor, justice, and other virtues as morally good, while pleasure is, at best, morally neutral, but for Epicurus, behavior in pursuit of pleasure assured an upright life.
Aesthetics can be seen as comprising two, overlapping, areas of enquiry: philosophical questions about aesthetic notions such as beauty and about the status of aesthetic judgments, on the one hand, and on the other, philosophical questions concerning art.
Aesthetic Taste. Taste is the most common trope when talking about the intellectual judgment of an object’s aesthetic merit. This popularity rose to an unprecedented degree in the eighteenth century, which is the main focus of this article.
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She is the author of Aesthetics and Material Beauty: Aesthetics Naturalized (2007) and Art and Ethics in a Material World: Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy (2014). She edited the inaugural issue of the Australasian Philosophical Review (March 2017) on 'The Pleasure of Art'.
Monroe Beardsley subtitled his 1958 book on general aesthetics Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism, implying that aesthetics is about philosophical concepts that are used — often unthinkingly — by critics of the arts, when they say that a work of art such as a painting is beautiful or has aesthetic value, that it represents some subject matter, has a well-composed form, is in a.