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Objective Beauty and Subjective Dissent in Leibniz’s Aesthetics

Author(s) -

Carlos Nicolas Portales

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

estetika the european journal of aesthetics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 2571-0915

pISSN - 0014-1291

DOI - 10.33134/eeja.171

Subject(s) - beauty , harmony (color) , cognitive dissonance , judgement , dissent , aesthetics , variety (cybernetics) , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , social psychology , mathematics , art , law , statistics , politics , political science , visual arts

According to the classical view, beauty is grounded on the universe’s objective harmony, defined by the formula of unity in variety. Concurrently, nature’s beauty is univocal and independent of subjective judgement. In this paper I will argue that, although Leibniz’s view coincides with this formula, his philosophy offers an explanation for subjective dissent in aesthetic judgements about nature. I will show that the acceptance of divergences on aesthetic value are the result of a conception of harmony that includes qualitative variety and dissonance.

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