PHL 2015 Introduction to Aesthetics
What is beauty? What is art? Is beauty a myth? A subjective and fleeting appreciation of reality that becomes as stale as yesterday's doughnuts? Is art simply a vague expression of feelings that acts like a drug to calm your nerves and fill your world? Or is there something behind art? Is there an artistic language? Is there artistic thought? Is there a transcendental property of reality that is beauty?