All 7 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Into the Wild
- Paul Shepard, Man in the Landscape: A HISTORIC VIEW OF THE ESTHETICS OF NATURE†
p. 25.8esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
- Esthetics as a parlor affectation is ludicrous and sometimes a little obscene; as a way of life it sometimes attains dignity.†
p. 87.8
- An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.†
p. 163.7aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- And unbeknownst to the Aesthetic Voyager, scattered within a six-mile radius of the bus are four cabins (although none happened to be occupied during the summer of 1992).†
p. 165.6
- ...the Insurpassable Joy of the Life Aesthetic.
p. 168.5 *aesthetic = appreciation of beautyunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- AN AESTHETIC VOYAGER WHOSE HOME IS THE ROAD......Immediately below this manifesto squats the stove, fabricated from a rusty oil drum.†
p. 179.5aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- As cultural ecologist Paul Shepard has observed, "The nomadic Bedouin does not dote on scenery, paint landscapes, or compile a nonutilitarian natural history...." [H]is life is so profoundly in transaction with nature that there is no place for abstraction or esthetics or a "nature philosophy" which can be separated from the rest of his life.†
p. 184.1esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
Definitions:
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(1)
(aesthetic) related to beauty or good taste -- often referring to one's appreciation of beauty or one's sense of what is beautiful
or:
beautiful or tasteful -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In Philosophy, "aesthetics" is the study of theories of what is beautiful.