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Traditionally, philosophy has been concerned with logic, the epistēmē of the true; ethics, the epistēmē of the good; and aesthetics, the epistēmē of the beautiful. So we can say that the beautiful is what aesthetics is about. This definition, however, does not get us very far as we do not yet know what aesthetics is, much less which specific flavor phenomenology can add; and complicating the issue, contemporary aesthetics explicitly questions that it is dealing with the beautiful at all. In the twentieth century aesthetics may well proceed without even touching on the question of beauty. But what exactly is the beautiful so that it can become a questionable object of our perception of the sensible world (aisthēsis) and the rather new field in philosophy called aesthetics?
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Neuber, S. (2009). Beauty. In: Sepp, H., Embree, L. (eds) Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2471-8_6
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