Abstract
Beauty was once the main or even exclusive topic of aesthetics.Now, two hundred years after Karl Rosenkranz’s Aesthetics of Ugliness and aformidable development of fine arts in which many atmospheres beyond theedge of beauty were produced, it may be time again to ask the fundamentalquestion of what the beautiful is like. But putting this question we notice thatsince the 18th century our aesthetical experience has deeply changed, so thatthe concept of traditional beauty must be changed itself.
Highlights
Beauty is,[2] and in philosophy a whole discipline has emerged which is primarily concerned with this question, namely aesthetics
Up to the midnineteenth century aesthetics was a theory of beauty
It might have been called a theory of the fine arts, since up to about that time the essential demand placed on the work of art was that what it represented had to appear beautiful
Summary
Beauty is,[2] and in philosophy a whole discipline has emerged which is primarily concerned with this question, namely aesthetics. It brings it together with the experience of light, and it defines beauty very clearly as a characteristic of objects, it by using the term “shine” (φαινεσθαι), establishes a relationship to the subject: if something appears (φαινεθαι), it must do so for someone.
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