TY - JOUR
T1 - Aesthetic Pleasure Explained
AU - DE CLERCQ, Rafael
N1 - Thanks to two referees for this journal, as well as to Arnold Burms, Leon Horsten, Paisley Livingston, Mikael Pettersson, Nick Zangwill, Jiji Zhang, and participants in the LU-SYSU Philosophical Forum (Lingnan University,November 28, 2015) for helpful comments, discussion, and encouragement.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - One of the oldest platitudes about beauty is that it is pleasant to perceive or experience. In this article, I take this platitude at face value and try to explain why experiences of beauty are seemingly always accompanied by pleasure. Unlike explanations that have been offered in the past, the explanation proposed is designed to suit a “realist” view on which beauty is an irreducibly evaluative property, that is, a value. In a nutshell, the explanation is that experiences of beauty are experiences in which it appears that something is beautiful, and that such experiences are identical to experiences of aesthetic pleasure.
AB - One of the oldest platitudes about beauty is that it is pleasant to perceive or experience. In this article, I take this platitude at face value and try to explain why experiences of beauty are seemingly always accompanied by pleasure. Unlike explanations that have been offered in the past, the explanation proposed is designed to suit a “realist” view on which beauty is an irreducibly evaluative property, that is, a value. In a nutshell, the explanation is that experiences of beauty are experiences in which it appears that something is beautiful, and that such experiences are identical to experiences of aesthetic pleasure.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064827845&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/jaac.12636
DO - 10.1111/jaac.12636
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0021-8529
VL - 77
SP - 121
EP - 132
JO - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
JF - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
IS - 2
ER -