This is one of those cases where I’m not sure exactly what “objective” and “subjective” are supposed to mean. Probably 2-place words, but probably objective ones.
I went with Other because I think aesthetic judgments are mostly the same for humans, but will be whatever evolution spits out for non-humans. There’s some objective (aesthetic value is a product of evolution) and some subjective (because it’s a product of evolution, it’s environment-dependent and subject to variation).
For all I know, though, that position is Accept:subjective, since 2-place words would be a radical new insight to most philosophers who pick Accept:objective.
I’m not sure how anyone could argue that aesthetic value is objective when humans regularly disagree about the aesthetic value of things. It’s a pretty stern counterexample.
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
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This is one of those cases where I’m not sure exactly what “objective” and “subjective” are supposed to mean. Probably 2-place words, but probably objective ones.
I went with Other because I think aesthetic judgments are mostly the same for humans, but will be whatever evolution spits out for non-humans. There’s some objective (aesthetic value is a product of evolution) and some subjective (because it’s a product of evolution, it’s environment-dependent and subject to variation).
For all I know, though, that position is Accept:subjective, since 2-place words would be a radical new insight to most philosophers who pick Accept:objective.
Of course this question is universally (snerk) misunderstood as “objective” = “universal”, which are not actually synonymous.
Other: I’m genuinely undecided about this. I don’t think I lean substantially in either direction.
Other: a complex weighted mixture of both, and varying according to context. Similar to ethical value.
I’m not sure how anyone could argue that aesthetic value is objective when humans regularly disagree about the aesthetic value of things. It’s a pretty stern counterexample.
Humans regularly disagree about lots of objective things, because they’re wrong about them.