Philosophy Looks at the Arts
ed. Joseph Margolis
(Third Edition, 1987)
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Part Two
The Definition of Art
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The trouble with any effort to fix the basic category-term, "work of art," is that it will depend on what counts as an aesthetic point of view.
But
what counts as an aesthetic point of view cannot itself be decided by some simple inspection of actual usage.Philosophers seem to decide,
more than to find,
what the boundaries of aesthetic interest are
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