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Aesthetics throughout History

The great civilizations of history – Mesopotamian, Persian, Chinese, Indian, Roman, Egyptian and Greek – were all centres of unique styles of art and design that contributed towards the modern understanding of art, and the contemporary theory of aesthetic philosophy.

What is Aesthetics?

Aesthetics is the philosophical branch of inquiry concerned with beauty, art and perception. From its philosophic roots in ancient Greece, where thinkers like Socrates and Plato considered the inherent meaning and beauty of things, aesthetics is also used to refer to the critique of art and design.

The Philosophy of Aesthetics

A philosophy of aesthetics can be drawn back to the early work of Plato – in which the classic Greek thinker supposed that all things of sensory beauty are imitations of the perfect form of their objectivity. In this view, each thing that belongs to a category – for example, the category of flower – [...]

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