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Aesthetic experience of beautiful and ugly persons: a critique




List of AuthorsMika Suojanen

PublisherCo-Action Publishing

Publication year2016

JournalJournal of Aesthetics and Culture

Article number30529

Volume number8

Issue number1

Number of pages10

ISSN2000-4214

eISSN2000-4214

DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jac.v8.30529

URLhttp://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/30529


Abstract

The question of whether or not beauty exists in nature is a philosophical problem. In particular, there is the question of whether artworks, persons, or nature has aesthetic qualities. Most people say that they care about their own beauty. Moreover, they judge another person’s appearance from an aesthetic point of view using aesthetic concepts. However, aesthetic judgements are not objective in the sense that the experience justifies their objectivity. By analysing Monroe C. Beardsley’s theory of the objectivity of aesthetic qualities, I examine whether there are really beautiful and ugly persons in the world. I will criticize the way analytic philosophers judge people and art from an aesthetic perspective. If there are no aesthetic qualities in the world, nobody can judge someone beautiful or ugly without oppression. Aesthetic judgement is exercise of power.


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