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

Copyright © 2008 Palgrave Macmillan. Access to external full text or publisher's version may require subscription.

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.

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