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Beauty

Question

I saw that you hold that aesthetic judgments, too, are rooted in an idea that exists in itself; but why not assume that they are simply a product of evolutionary development?

Answer

I’d call this question “Beauty Comfort.” 🙂 For the benefit of our younger readers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWTvXA7O7eI
When you write “too,” you’re hinting at ethical judgments. About that I would ask, from your own starting point: regarding ethical judgments, how do you know they are not an evolutionary product? Because you understand that they are true. The same could be the case with aesthetic judgments.
By the way, the fact that something is a product of evolution does not mean it isn’t true. Vision, too, is a product of evolution, and yet we all understand that it reflects the truth. Evolution gave us the ability to understand and discern something. So too with ethics, and perhaps also with aesthetics.
But on the matter itself, I think I usually point out that regarding aesthetic judgments I am uncertain (unlike ethical judgments). There it may really be a subjective matter. I tend to think not, and I brought as an illustration Bach’s musical abilities. See columns 143 and 488.

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