Aesthetic ideals
Document Type
Book chapter
Source Publication
New waves in aesthetics
Publication Date
12-1-2009
First Page
188
Last Page
202
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Abstract
My point of departure in this chapter is a claim about aesthetic properties that seems hard to deny in the light of twentieth-century post-formalist aesthetics (as represented by, for example, Walton’s ‘Categories of Art’). The claim is this: what aesthetic properties an object has depends not just on what non-aesthetic, accidental (e.g., perceptual) properties it has but also on what kind of object it is, that is under what sortal it falls (e.g. ‘man’, ‘animal’). Using the concept of supervenience to single out the relevant sense of dependence, this claim can also be put as follows: any adequate supervenience base for aesthetic properties minimally includes a number of essential properties.
Publisher Statement
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Additional Information
ISBN of the source publication: 9780230220461
Language
English
Recommended Citation
De Clercq, R. (2008). Aesthetic ideals. In K. Stock & K. Thomson-Jones (Eds.), New waves in aesthetics (pp.188-202). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.