(We will compose substantive, unambiguously true or false statements on the following content in class on Friday, 2/26 for our quiz #1 scheduled for Monday 3/2.)
1. Definitions of "philosophy" and "aesthetics"
2. Westenburgs chapter on "Aesthetics" (i.e., defining aesthetic judgment using a continuum from personal to objective/universal; distinction between liking and judging; disinterested interest and Kant; source/nature of "appropriate" responses to the aesthetic)
3. Nehamas on beauty (i.e., problem of the Kantian notion which is concept-free but also universally valid, along with Nehama's alternative; meaning of phrase "beauty is the promise of happiness"; how an object can lose its beauty for someone; the idea that the pursuit of beauty can be dangerous or requires communication).
4. First 2 sections of Chapter 2 on Art (Imitation/representation & Formalism). Plato vs. Aristotle on art; difference between imitation and representation; nature of conceptual art; Modernism vs. post-modernism; significant form (and post-modern critique thereof).
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