Approach to Aesthetics
Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics
Sibley, Frank former Professor of Philosophy, Lancaster University
Benson, John Professor of Philosophy
Redfern, Betty
Cox, Jeremy Roxbee all at Lancaster University
Print publication date: 2001 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823899-7







doi:10.1093/0198238991.003.0002

Frank Sibley
Abstract: ‘Aesthetics and the Looks of Things’ examines the view that aesthetic vision is justifiably juxtaposed to ordinary vision and that a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the former is that it is concerned always, if not only, with an object’s ‘appearing so-and-so’ rather than ‘being so-and-so’. Sibley first clarifies how such a view can be understood. He then broadens the debate beyond looks to include sounds, tastes, feels, smells, and so forth. Sibley finally argues that only a certain family of such appearances can be admired for themselves or serve as ultimate goods for aesthetic admiration. The tentative characterisation of the latter is that they are vitally involved in human experience.

Keywords: admiration, aesthetics, appearance, experience, feels, Frank Sibley, sounds, taste,

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