what the idealism of aesthectics?

Answer 1

I believe that it's the appreciation and the accentuation of beauty pertaining to art, an artist or artistic style. Not really sure though.

Answer 2

Generally aesthetics can be thought as a philosophy that focuses on the appreciation of beauty. Some characteristics associated with aesthetics include harmony, proportion, being pleasurable to the senses, such sensations of touch, smell, color, and hearing.

Idealism is a philosophy in it's own right. As idealism relates to aesthetics, it is based on preconceived ideals of beauty. These ideals are influenced by the culture and the geography in which they occur and determine what is considered beautiful.

Despite the cultural differences, there aspects of harmony and proportion, such as the "Golden Mean" or "Golden Section" that reoccur in nature as well as Art, Architecture, Music, and Poetry. Eastern aesthetics may share some aspects with Western aestheticism, yet there are striking varieties in it's music, landscape design, and architecture for example, that set their sense of aesthetic appreciation apart.

Answer 3

Idealism is a class of positions in ontology and epistemology. Idealism as an epistemological position asserts that everything we experience is of a mental nature. That is, we can only have direct, immediate knowledge of the contents of our mind. We can never directly know or experience an external object itself. As an ontological position Idealism asserts either that only minds and the objects of mind exist, or that everything is composed of mental realities (e.g., thoughts, feelings, perceptions, ideas, or will). As a foundation for cosmology, or an approach to understanding the nature of existence, idealism is often contrasted with materialism, both belonging to the class of monist as opposed to dualist or pluralist ontologies. (Note that this contrast between idealism and materialism is approximately as to whether the substance of the world is at base mental or physical — it has nothing to do with thinking that things should be idealized, or with coveting goods.) Subjective Idealists and Phenomenalists (such as George Berkeley) hold that minds and their experiences constitute existence. Objective Idealists hold either that all of reality is included in a Universal Thought or Experience (Absolute Idealism), or hold that the world is composed of mental realities. Panpsychists (such as Leibniz) hold that all objects of experience are also subjects. That is, plants and minerals have subjective experiences--though very different from the consciousness of animals. Most Idealists tend to reject representationalist views of experience and instead hold that the world of experience is the same as the world of reality.

The approach to idealism by Western philosophers has been different from that of Eastern thinkers. In much of Western thought (though not in such major Western thinkers as Plato and Hegel) the ideal relates to direct knowledge of subjective mental ideas, or images. It is then usually juxtaposed with realism in which the real is said to have absolute existence prior to and independent of our knowledge. Epistemological idealists (such as Kant) might insist that the only things which can be directly known for certain are ideas. In Eastern thought, as reflected in Hindu idealism, the concept of idealism takes on the meaning of consciousness, essentially the living consciousness of an all-pervading God, as the basis of all phenomena. A type of Asian idealism is Buddhist idealism

Answer 4

simply beautiful...