# Aesthetics — Deck 08

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Category: Philosophy
Slides: 14
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:58.986Z
Tags: philosophy, aesthetics

## Summary

A philosophical gallery of beauty, taste, and art — across three centuries of careful argument and an even longer tradition of looking. Key sections include: Aes thet ics; Three questions, repeatedly; Plato & the suspicion of art; Hume — Of the Standard of Taste, 1757; Kant — Critique of the Power of Judgment, 1790; Nietzsche — The Birth of Tragedy, 1872; Formalism & Significant Form; Expression Theories; What is Art?; The Gallery.

## Slide Outline

1. Aes thet ics
2. Three questions, repeatedly
3. Plato & the suspicion of art
4. Hume — Of the Standard of Taste, 1757
5. Kant — Critique of the Power of Judgment, 1790
6. Nietzsche — The Birth of Tragedy, 1872
7. Formalism & Significant Form
8. Expression Theories
9. What is Art?
10. The Gallery
11. Key Works
12. Why It Still Matters
13. Go Deeper
14. Colophon

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