Q&A: Aesthetics
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Aesthetics
Question
Hello and blessings.
If aesthetics is a field that belongs to philosophy, does that mean every painter or musician is בעצם a philosopher?
Answer
Is a writer a literary scholar? Is a scientist a philosopher of science? The fact that philosophy deals with aesthetics as a subject of discussion does not mean that engaging in aesthetics is necessarily philosophy. The painter creates, while the philosopher discusses the meaning of the work, the ways to judge it, and the significance of the creative process.