Abstract (may include machine translation)
Art is one thing, the aesthetic another. Things can be appreciated aesthetically – for instance, in terms of the traditional category of the beautiful – without being works of art. A landscape can be appreciated as beautiful; so can a man or a woman. Appreciation of such natural objects in terms of their beauty certainly counts as aesthetic appreciation, if anything does. This is not simply because landscapes and people are not artefacts; for there are also artefacts which are assessable aesthetically without being works of art (e.g. an elegant car or a mathematical proof)...
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Radical Enactivism |
| Subtitle of host publication | Intentionality, Phenomenology and Narrative: Focus on the Philosophy of Daniel D. Hutto |
| Editors | Richard Menary |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Pages | 107-119 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |