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  2. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek aesthetics. The first important contributions to aesthetic theory are usually considered to stem from philosophers in Ancient Greece, among which the most noticeable are Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. When interpreting writings from this time, it is worth noticing that it is debatable whether an exact equivalent to the term beauty ...

  3. List of aestheticians - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Burke. Victor Cousin. Jonathan Edwards. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Johann Friedrich Herbart. Johann Gottfried Herder. David Hume. Francis Hutcheson. Immanuel Kant.

  4. 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 the ...

  5. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson , create a parallel , or perform another didactic ...

  6. Mikhail Bakhtin - Wikipedia

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    Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (/ b ʌ x ˈ t iː n / bukh-TEEN; Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin]; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 – 7 March [2] 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.

  7. Jo Lindner - Wikipedia

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    Johannes (Jo) Lindner (14 January 1993 – 30 June 2023), better known as Joesthetics on social media, [1] was a German bodybuilder.He was also a model, and became one of the most famous German fitness influencers [2] as well as co-owner of the food supplement brand Huge Supplements. [3]

  8. Miyabi - Wikipedia

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    Miyabi (雅) is one of the traditional Japanese aesthetic ideals, though not as prevalent as Iki or Wabi-sabi. In modern Japanese, the word is usually translated as "elegance," "refinement," or "courtliness" and sometimes to a "sweet loved one". The ideal posed by the word demanded the elimination of anything that was absurd or vulgar and the ...

  9. Ancient aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics is defined as the perception of art, design or beauty. [2] Aesthetics is derived from the Greek word " aisthetikos" [3] defined as a perception of the senses. In aesthetics, there is a process of individual analysis, perception and imagination. [4] Perception is defined as an individual's neurophysiological process of awareness and ...