(Originally written July 22, 2007 in Book 25)
Recap of Aesthetic Freestyling & Five Levels of Aesthetic Judgment so far:
I. Beauty
What is Beauty?
- Beauty is the quality of being worthy of aesthetic appreciation
- Ugly is the opposite of beauty; that is, it is the quality of being unworthy of aesthetic appreciation
- Taste is unconcerned with beauty. Taste is the quality of personal preference. Taste and beauty would correlate every time in a purely aesthetic being.
- Beauty is external; it exists in the thing itself. It is objective. Taste is internal; it exists in the viewer of the thing. It is subjective
II. Aesthetic Judgments
- Aesthetic judgments are judgments we make on the basis of whether a thing is beautiful or ugly
- When making aesthetic judgments it is incorrect to incorporate taste into the equation. If we confuse taste and beauty we are left with problematic philosophy
- When making aesthetic judgments we go through a process to make mature aesthetic judgments. There are five stages:
1. Surface judgment: Infancy
2. Sensory judgment: Childhood
3. Historical judgment: Adolescence
4. Introspective Judgment: Adulthood
5. Mystic Artist Judgment: Full Maturity
III. Aesthetic and Non-Aesthetic Objects
An aesthetic object is differentiated from a non-aesthetic object by its primary function
A non-aesthetic object is any object that's primary function that is not the primary function of an aesthetic object
An aesthetic object is an art object
The primary function of an aesthetic object is to communicate something
IV. Art
What is art?
Art is anything that is created to relay a thought, feeling, emotion, story, etc. that does not use ordinary language
Art is itself a universal language.
Perceived problem: what about literature? Literature uses ordinary language, but literature is nonetheless art. Solution: in creating art the author transforms ordinary language into the universal language of art. The question here is how?
V. Is art as a whole good or evil?
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