The flaw of Aesthetics

lets us assume that Beauty is the recognition of truths that are within ourselves, and that there is an object truth.

As non-perfect beings some of what we recognise inside ourselves as truths are infact non-truths, this leads to representations of these non-truths as being percieved as beautiful. This could be described as False Beauty, for a perfect being would not find such an object to be beautiful.

and i’m afraid this leaves us in a similar conundrum to where we started, for beauty is a representation of truth, however things that are not true can apear to be beautiful.

this could be used as an argument against modern art which strives for the subjective rather than the objective, and in so doing decieves itself with false beauty.

Aesthetics, a quicky

Kant breaks Beauty into Pure Beauty and Dependant Beauty. Pure Beauty being devoid of all motive, while Dependant Beauty requires motives i.e. it becomes beautiful when other factors are taken into account, but may not be thought of as being beautiful upon first impressions.

i think this distinction is in some ways false, i would instead say that Dependant Beauty is simply the beauty of understanding. it is the very act of understanding the concept that is beautiful rather than the object that embodies the concept.