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Definition:
The term "aestheticism" is used in art to refer to any trend which argues that art is self-sufficient and
justifies its own existence, thus rejecting an opposing perspective which assumes that art some other
purpose for existence and must by non-aesthetic standards (moral, political, social, etc.).
The basic slogan of aestheticism can be states as: l'art pour l'art (art for arts' sake), a phrase first used by Victor Cousin in 1818 in his lectures Le Vrai, le Beau, et le Bien. At times, aestheticism has developed self-consciously into an artistic movement, as with the Aesthetic Movement of the late 18th century.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
