# Philosophy of Art

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Category: Philosophy
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:01.679Z
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## Summary

The philosophy of art is the philosophical investigation of what art is, what makes something beautiful, what aesthetic experience consists in, and why any of it matters. The discipline is as old as Plato's Republic and as current as last week's debate about whether AI-generated images are art. Key sections include: Philosophy of Art.; Opening What we ask of art.; Chapter I Plato banishes the poets.; Chapter II Aristotle answers.; Chapter III The Neoplatonic interlude.; Chapter IV Hume on taste.; Chapter V Kant's third Critique.; Chapter VI Schiller's aesthetic education.; Chapter VII Hegel and the end of art.; Chapter VIII Schopenhauer and music..

## Slide Outline

1. Philosophy of Art.
2. Opening What we ask of art.
3. Chapter I Plato banishes the poets.
4. Chapter II Aristotle answers.
5. Chapter III The Neoplatonic interlude.
6. Chapter IV Hume on taste.
7. Chapter V Kant's third Critique.
8. Chapter VI Schiller's aesthetic education.
9. Chapter VII Hegel and the end of art.
10. Chapter VIII Schopenhauer and music.
11. Chapter IX Nietzsche on the Apollonian and Dionysian.
12. Chapter X Tolstoy: art as transmission.
13. Chapter XI Heidegger on the artwork.
14. Chapter XII Adorno's negative aesthetics.
15. Chapter XIII Significant form.
16. Chapter XIV The institutional theory.
17. Chapter XV Danto and the end of art.
18. Chapter XVI Goodman on symbol systems.
19. Chapter XVII Carroll on the historical narrative theory.
20. Chapter XVIII Levinson and the aesthetic.
21. Chapter XIX The evolutionary turn.
22. Chapter XX The return of beauty.
23. Chapter XXI AI art and the contemporary frontier.
24. Chapter XXI-pre Dewey on art as experience.
25. Chapter XXI-bis Bourdieu on the social field.
26. Chapter XXI-ter Philosophy of music.
27. Chapter XXI-quat Fiction and emotion.
28. Chapter XXII The shelf.
29. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
30. Colophon

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