Aesthetic relativism

Aesthetic relativism is the idea that

or validity.

Context

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Aesthetic relativism might be regarded as a sub-set of an overall philosophical

Nietzsche

, entitled "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense".)

Aesthetic relativism is a variety of the philosophy known generally as relativism, which casts doubt on the possibility of direct

ethical relativism

(the claim that moral judgements are relative). Aesthetic and ethical relativism are sub-categories of cognitive relativism.

Categories

Aesthetic relativism takes two major forms: aesthetic subjectivism and aesthetic perspectivism.[1]

Adherents

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Philosophers who have been influential in relativist thinking include

Philosophers who have given influential objectivist accounts include Plato, and in particular his Theory of the Forms; Immanuel Kant, who argued that the judgement of beauty, despite being subjective, is a universally practiced function of the mind; Noam Chomsky, whose "nativist" theory of linguistics argues for a universal grammar (i.e., that language is not as contingent as relativists have argued that it is).

The most prominent philosophical opponent of aesthetic relativism was Immanuel Kant, who argued that the judgement of beauty, while subjective, is universal.

See also

• Aesthetic absolutism

References