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aesthetics

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asked 6 years ago

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If aesthetics is a field that belongs to philosophy, is every painter or musician actually a philosopher?

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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago

Is a writer a literary scholar? Is a scientist a philosopher of science? The fact that philosophy deals with aesthetics as Donne’s subject does not mean that dealing with aesthetics is necessarily philosophy. The painter is more of a work of art, and the philosopher discusses the meaning of the work and the ways to judge it and the meaning of the creative process.

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