aesthetic judgment
Evaluating artistic merit
Aesthetic judgment is the evaluation of something's beauty, artistic merit, or sensory appeal.
Unlike factual claims, aesthetic judgments are subjective assessments of taste: Whether the building is ugly is a matter of aesthetic judgment.
The term appears in philosophy and criticism when distinguishing responses based on feeling from those based on logic or evidence.
- disinterestednessAbsence of selfish motive
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- fine artAesthetic visual creations
- tasteFlavor perception ability
- beautyAesthetic excellence
form · perception · kitsch · interpretation · critique · sublime · visual harmony · universality · good taste · high culture · pleasure · evaluative · connoisseurship · trained eye · sensation · discernment · objectivity · Kantian
aesthetic judgmentmoral reasoning
Evaluating right and wrong
moral judgment · logical reasoning · logical analysis · cost-benefit analysis · legal judgment
aesthetic judgmentscientific measurement
Quantified experimental observation
aesthetic judgmentphilistinism
Contempt for cultural refinement