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Why Aesthetic Value Judgements Cannot be Justified

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2009

Abstract

Contrary to the title of the article its autor is convinced that aesthetic value judgements can be justified. He thus plays here the role of devil's advocate by citing, strengthening and inventing arguments against the very posibility of their justification.

The reason for this is that the author's conviction that such argument have not been fully confronted. The article is thus intended as a challenge: any theory of art evaluation, which assumes or tries to establish tha some works of art are objectively better than others and that aesthetic judgements are not just statements expressing personal likes and dislikes, schould show how such arguments can be refuted.