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  2. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste and, in a broad sense, incorporates the philosophy of art. [1] Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [ 2 ] thus, the function of aesthetics is ...

  3. Philosophy of education - Wikipedia

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    A central question in the philosophy of education concerns the aims of education, i.e. the question of why people should be educated and what goals should be pursued in the process of education. [ 8 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 14 ] This issue is highly relevant for evaluating educational practices and products by assessing how well they manage to realize ...

  4. Art as Experience - Wikipedia

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    Dewey had previously written articles on aesthetics in the 1880s and had further addressed the matter in Democracy and Education (1915). In his major work, Experience and Nature (1925), he laid out the beginnings of a theory of aesthetic experience, and wrote two important essays for Philosophy and Civilization (1931). [1]

  5. Outline of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    "Outline of aesthetics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Medieval Theories of Aesthetics article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Revue online Appareil; Postscript 1980- Some Old Problems in New Perspectives; Aesthetics in Art Education: A Look Toward Implementation; More about Art, culture and Education; An history of aesthetics

  6. Garry L. Hagberg - Wikipedia

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    He is editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, and has contributed to such publications as Historical Reflections, The Henry James Review, Philosophy, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Mind, New Novel Review, The Philosophical Quarterly, Ethics, Perspectives of New Music, Encyclopedia of the Essay, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Routledge ...

  7. Applied aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Design aesthetics is interested in the appearance of products; the explanation and meaning of this appearance is studied mainly in terms of social and cultural factors. The distinctive focus of the section is research and education in the field of sensory modalities in relation to product design.

  8. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The work most crucial to aesthetics as a strand of philosophy is the first half of his Critique of the Power of Judgment, the Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment. It is subdivided in two main parts - the Analytic of the Beautiful and the Analytic of the Sublime, but also deals with the experience of fine art.

  9. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - Wikipedia

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    We would then take the name partly in its transcendental meaning, and partly in the psychological meaning. (Critique of Pure Reason, A 21, note.) Nine years later, in his Critique of Judgment, Kant conformed to Baumgarten's new usage and employed the word aesthetic to mean the judgment of taste or the estimation of the beautiful. For Kant, an ...