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Definition:
The Aesthetic Movement a late 19th century development which argued that art was not
supposed to be utilitarian or useful in any practical sense. Instead, aesthetic
experience is a fully autonomous and independent aspect of a human life. Thus, art should
exist solely for its own sake: l'art pour l'art (art for art's sake), a phras
first used by Cousin in 1818 in his lectures Le Vrai, le Beau, et le Bien. Thus,
the Aesthetic Movement was not entirely autonomous but was, instead, part of the larger
trend labeled
aestheticism.
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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?
