AESTHETICS

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AESTHETICS

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the subject of beauty, art, and taste.

Aesthetic questions include “What is art?” and “What is meant when we say something is beautiful?” Philosophic naturalists who have written about aesthetics include

Brand Blanshard

John Dewey

John Hospers

Horace Kallen, and

George Santayana.

Bertrand Russell, according to Blanshard, did not write about aesthetics because

• I didn’t know anything about it . . . although this is not a very good excuse, for my friends tell me it has not deterred me from writing on other subjects.

(See entry for Beauty.)

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