🎯 CENTRAL QUESTIONS IN AESTHETICS
Is Beauty in the Object or in the Viewer?
Plato: Eternal Form - like seeing a shadow and remembering the object
Hume: Personal sentiment - like preferring one ice cream flavor
Kant: Disinterested pleasure - like universal awe at Grand Canyon
What is the Purpose of Art?
Aristotle: Emotional purification - like a good cry that relieves
Tolstoy: Emotion transmission - like feeling a friend's story
Modern: Challenge conventions - like questioning what art is