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What Is Beauty? Philosophical Perspectives Overview

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The term 'aesthetics' was coined in the 18th century by Alexander Baumgarten, but the philosophical debate about beauty dates back to ancient Greece.

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Is beauty a quality that resides in things themselves, or is it entirely in the eye of the beholder? Philosophers have wrestled with this question for over two thousand years.