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  2. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics of nature developed as a sub-field of philosophical ethics. In the 18th and 19th century, the aesthetics of nature advanced the concepts of disinterestedness, the pictures, and the introduction of the idea of positive aesthetics. [1] The first major developments of nature occurred in the 18th century.

  3. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.

  4. Sublime (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Romantic artists during the 19th century used the epicness of nature as an expression of the sublime. In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of ...

  5. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Dadirri is a form of aesthetics that involves appreciating the beauty and significance of nature and spirituality through being silent and receptive. It includes appreciating the natural patterns, colors, sounds, and shapes that surround us.

  6. Outline of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to aesthetics: Aesthetics – branch of philosophy and axiology concerned with the nature of beauty . What type of thing is an aesthetic?

  7. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    Production of Aesthetic style furniture was limited to approximately the late 19th century. [citation needed] Aesthetic style furniture is characterized by several common themes: Ebonized wood with gilt highlights. Far Eastern influence. Prominent use of nature, especially flowers, birds, ginkgo leaves, and peacock feathers.

  8. Beauty - Wikipedia

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    Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. [3] [4] Beauty is usually categorized as an aesthetic property besides other properties, like grace, elegance or the sublime. [5] [6] [7] As a positive aesthetic value, beauty is contrasted with ugliness as its

  9. Lectures on Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Lectures on Aesthetics (LA; German: Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik, VÄ) is a compilation of notes from university lectures on aesthetics given by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Heidelberg in 1818 and in Berlin in 1820/21, 1823, 1826 and 1828/29.