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the branch of philosophy that argues about beauty instead of just enjoying it.
means the study of what makes things beautiful, tasteful, or artistically satisfying, and why anyone agrees on that at all.
from from greek aisthesis, meaning perception through the senses; kant and baumgarten dragged it into philosophy in the 1700s to argue taste could be reasoned about, not just felt.
kant's takebeauty is judged without needing a reason, oddly
plato's suspicionhe thought art was a lie twice removed
modern slippagenow also means a mood board or vibe
aesthetics vs ethicsancient greeks argued beauty and goodness were the same thing