0 the formal study of art, especially in relation to the idea of beauty
1 the formal study of the principles of art and beauty
We may all agree about aesthetics, and yet differ about particular works of art.
These remarks are illustrated in the aesthetics of landscape gardening.
Their taste is rather the outcome of a desire to please others than of a sense of aesthetics.
The discovery of the beauty of nature, and with it the revival of aesthetics, was an essential part of the new-born civilisation.
Differences in politics, in ethics and even in aesthetics need not arouse angry antagonism.
