Aesthetics

About this course

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty, art, and sensory experience. It asks what makes something beautiful or sublime, how we should understand and evaluate works of art, what the relationship is between aesthetic experience and emotion, and whether aesthetic judgements can be objective or are always matters of personal taste. These questions have occupied philosophers from ancient Greece to the present day, and the answers have implications not only for how we think about art but for how we understand human experience, culture, and value more broadly. At University College Birmingham you will study this three-year full-time degree, with a typical entry tariff of 104 points. The programme introduces you to the major philosophical traditions in aesthetics, from Plato's suspicion of art's effects on the soul through Kant's theory of the sublime and the b

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