2007-01-19 12:57:24 · 14 answers · asked by -.- 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Aesthetic judgments subjective? For the most part.
Are they worthless? No. It helps shape perception and satisfies the emotional part of our existence. It helps us survive.
2007-01-21 18:51:58 · answer #1 · answered by truthyness 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are definitely sujective to individual preference, and therefore, should be a minimal worry to people. If one person doesn't think you're "pretty", a hundred others may. It goes the same for if a hundred people don't find you attractive, there will always be at least one that does.
Yes, in the great scheme of things, of life, aesthetic judgements do not matter, or rather, should not matter.
2007-01-19 21:29:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The judgements are worthless, but there's something to be said for aesthetic appreciation.
2007-01-19 21:05:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If everything subjective is automatically worthless, then most of what humanity treasures is meaningless.
2007-01-19 21:05:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let's see....you hanging off a cliff by one fraying rope and Shakira hanging off another. Who do I save?
What was that you were saying about worthless?
2007-01-19 22:59:28 · answer #5 · answered by randkl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are any judgments truly objective? I believe that by the virtue of judgment it is subjective.
2007-01-19 21:05:54 · answer #6 · answered by parrotsandgrog 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, some of the judgments are based on mathematical relation, and tend to be more universal in how much they are appreciated. Besides, everything is subjective, objectivity is simply a special, rigorous form of inter-subjective agreement.
2007-01-19 23:43:16 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not as subjective as you may think.
Look up Fibanachi and or Golden Mean.
2007-01-19 21:07:21 · answer #8 · answered by sean e 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, beauty and ugliness are *objective* properties of things.
Beauty is a *transcendental property of being.*
This means that *being as being* is beautiful - as beauty is simply another name for being|
It is similar to the principle that goodness is a transcendental property of being - that is, being=goodness|
So any evil or ugliness in a thing is simply due to a *lack of being* where it is *due.*
It is similar to the principle that coldness is not a thing in itself, but is simply the absence of heat.
But it has to be the absence of what is *due* - not any absence we can think of.
For example, it is a physical evil for a man to lack sight, because sight is proper to man *qua* man, but it is not an evil if he lacks wings to fly, because wings to fly are not proper to the nature of man.
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2007-01-19 23:07:07 · answer #9 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All things are neutral in their sense of good or bad. Human perspective creates those two derivatives.
2007-01-19 21:01:23 · answer #10 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋