the.com/aesthetics
The philosophy of why some things feel right and you can't explain why.
means The branch of philosophy concerned with beauty, art, and taste — what makes something pleasing and why.
from From Greek 'aisthetikos,' meaning 'perceptive' or 'relating to perception by the senses,' rooted in 'aisthesis,' sensation. An 18th-century German philosopher adopted it to name a new field studying beauty and artistic judgment — splitting it off from logic as the science of sensory, rather than rational, knowledge. Oddly, the word's sense-rooted origin got narrowed over time to mean almost the opposite of raw sensation: refined, cultivated taste.
- not beauty
- Covers ugliness, kitsch, and the sublime too
- kant's take
- Beauty is pleasure with no practical purpose
- etymology
- Greek aisthesis means perception, not prettiness
- instagram era
- Algorithms now mass-produce taste, not individuals