Aestheticism, a philosophy of aesthetics and culture, is the idea that beauty is a human quality independent of all others. It is the opposite of Reductionism, the idea that all meaning comes from either a physical source or an emotional one, with all aspects of our being derived from these sources. In other words, aestheticism is the view that all meaning and all reality are aesthetic. This article will discuss three philosophical terms often used to describe this belief, Wikipedia, Populists, and Anti-Aesthetic sentiment.
Aestheticism, also called aesthetic culture, was a vital philosophy of the Viennese art movement. The term was first used by German philosopher Alfred Knapp, who, like many other artists, subscribed to the “idealism” of his time. In essence, aestheticism suggests that beauty is a primary, independent element of reality. This philosophy differs from reductionism, the philosophy of space and time, in that the former believe that beauty exists independently of all other aspects of reality, while the latter consider all qualities and objects of experience to exist in a mental framework independent of all other mental frameworks.
There are a number of different philosophical terms that can be used to explain aestheticism and its related positions. The three most commonly used are Immanent Idealism, Identification, and Reductionism. Terms that fall under the classification of Immanent Idealism are Subjective Realism, and Absolute Idealism.