Toward a Communitarian Theory of Aesthetic Value
Nick Riggle
Abstract
Abstract Our paradigms of aesthetic value condition the philosophical questions we pose and hope to answer about it. Theories of aesthetic value are typically individualistic, in the sense that the paradigms they are designed to capture, and the questions to which they are offered as answers, center the individual’s engagement with aesthetic value. Here I offer some considerations that suggest that such individualism is a mistake and sketch a communitarian way of posing and answering questions about the nature of aesthetic value.
Topics & Concepts
MistakeIndividualismValue (mathematics)SketchAestheticsAesthetic valueEpistemologySociologyPsychologyPhilosophyComputer sciencePolitical scienceLawAlgorithmMachine learningAesthetic Perception and AnalysisEthics, Aesthetics, and ArtVisual Culture and Art Theory