Normativity and Thick Aesthetic Concepts

Thick aesthetic concepts such as ‘gracious’, ‘delicate’ and ‘virtuous’ are, according to the standard theory, characterised as both descriptive and evaluative. In the first part of this paper (I), I examine Sibley’s study of normativity with regard to his version of thick aesthetic concepts. In t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kai-Uwe Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2016-12-01
Series:Aesthetic Investigations
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Online Access:https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/11997