Aesthetics


What is art?  How should its meaning be judged? Must its meaning be judged at all?  The study of aesthetics reveals how philosophers have answered these questions - and many more.

Introducing Aesthetics
In this section you evaluated the strengths and weaknesses to some of the main questions of aesthetics.
Key People include: Aristotle, Plato,  Descartes, baumgarten, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Dewey, Danto, Croce, Bell...

Theories and Types of Art
In this section you compare the problems, principles, methods and conclusions of various philosophers.
Key People include: Tolstoy, Collingwood, Husserl, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Frueh, Gablik, von Schelling, Schopenhauer...

Beauty
What exactly is beauty? The debate continues.
Key People include: Jean-Francois Lyotard, Linda Nochlin, Marily French, Kongfuzi, Laozi, Jiddu Krshnamurti, Michel Foucault, Susanne Langer...