Aesthetics - What is Beauty? What is Art?

(Originally Written on December 25, 2007 in the Journal)

Aesthetics - What is Beauty? What is Art?

Part I: What is Beauty?

Questions for consideration:

1) Is beauty subjective, objective, or a combination thereof?
2) What is taste?

Part II: Explore different mediums, define art (as a language?)

Research Topics

Immanuel Kant
David Hume
Ludwig Wittgenstein
John Dewey
Leo Tolstoy
Plato
Nelson Goodman
Arthur C. Danto
Martin Heidegger
Jerrold Levinson
Terry Eagleton
Michel Foucault
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aristotle
Edmund Burke
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Topics: mediums, perception of art, why create?

"Of the Standard of Taste"
By: David Hume

It is useful for us to seek a "standard of taste".

A standard of taste is "a rule by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled".