PrescriptiveAesthetic
Enjoying beauty or creating it
On the axis: Beauty in life · a life
Is the aesthetic life about gathering beautiful experiences as a connoisseur, or about fashioning oneself as a work by giving one's existence style?
Philosophers' positions
Major
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Justification
It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified: the thesis of subordinates the meaning of life to the aesthetic rather than the moral register. Art, not morality, is the truly metaphysical activity of man.
It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.The Birth of Tragedy, §5
The Birth of Tragedy, §5 and §24 · The Birth of Tragedy, "Attempt at a Self-Criticism", §5
Anchors: Pater · Nietzsche · Foucault