Named arguments and positions that concern the nature of art, beauty and our emotional and evaluative responses to aesthetic objects: the paradox of fiction as the puzzle of how genuine emotion can be felt toward events and characters known to be invented. Belongs here: a formulated argument or named position whose target question is the nature of art, beauty or an aesthetic response. Does not belong here: an argument whose target is a moral question about art's content or effects rather than an aesthetic one, grouped under Ethics instead.
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1. Wikipedia: Aesthetics
WikipediaAesthetics, lead section, emergence sentence
Aesthetic thought has its roots in antiquity but only emerged as a distinct field of inquiry in the 18th century when philosophers systematically engaged with the subject.
Aesthetics, lead section, Baumgarten term-coining sentence
The Latin term aesthetica was coined by the philosopher Alexander Baumgarten in 1735
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