On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:30 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Yes, but only in the sense of diverting discussion from aesthetic ideas. > Why do > you say ideals? That implies that the nature of the aesthetic is > recognized and > understood and that the role of aesthetic inquiry is simply to mark the > best > path to those ideals. I don't think it's clear what ideals, if any, are > aesthetic or if the aesthetic is a process instead of a route to an > idealized > goal. > wc > But weren't aesthetic ideals more widely accepted in the past? And don't aesthetic ideals still exist in foreign countries?: http://books.google.com/books?id=GmRGQwAACAAJ&dq=%22aesthetic+ideals%22&source=bl&ots=MNUh2LZmYW&sig=kc6fBG17E3W9zgMM-OnPrg1FQ_Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SGESULK6IsnmiwKnqID4Ag&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg
