What is art? What is beauty? How do we perceive it?. The philosophy of aesthetics aims to answer these questions and is closely related to the philosophy of art which is concerned with the nature of art and the generalities in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated. Aesthetics in philosophy go beyond the scope of philosophy of art, which only comprises one of its branches. It further deals not only with the nature and value of the beauty we see in art and objects but also with those responses to natural objects that find expression in the language of the beautiful and the grotesque.
However, terms such as beautiful and ugly seem too vague and diminished in their application and too subjective in their meaning to divide the world successfully into those things that do, and those that do not, sustain them. It may be that there is some uncanny underlying belief that motivates all of our aesthetic judgments. Albeit, it may also be, that the term beautiful has no sense except as the expression of an attitude, which is in turn attached by different people to differences in circumstances, experience, and perception.
