Branches whose central concern is beauty, art and aesthetic experience across artistic media. Belongs here: aesthetics itself as the general branch, and philosophy of film as its treatment of a single art form. Does not belong here: philosophy of literature, grouped with philosophy of language for its shared concern with meaning and interpretation, even though literature is also an art form.
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Era of Emergence Cultural Origin Tradition Aesthetics
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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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