Wine as an Aesthetic Object

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationQuestions of Taste
Subtitle of host publicationThe Philosophy of Wine
EditorsBarry C. Smith
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages141-156
Number of pages16
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes

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