I just came here to write a shortform on aesthetics, but I might as well write some random thoughts here and reach you in particular.
I believe that “Aesthetics Maketh the Man”. You can judge much about one’s character simply by what they find beautiful or ugly, and you can judge their values and morals simply by how solid their aesthetics are.
Perhaps it is indeed easier or better to quantify “aesthetics” as the array of morals, values, sense of beauty and empirical metis that compromise a living being’s personality. Things that are intrinsically part of how we interact with the world and society at large.
But to actually answer your question: I have given thought to aesthetics from a rational(?) POV that I hadn’t bothered with before, and no, I haven’t ever went into a “major disagreement” that went anywhere near “well”. People can be very irrational towards things their own aesthetic sense considers “ugly”, even (or specially) within the rationalist community.
I just came here to write a shortform on aesthetics, but I might as well write some random thoughts here and reach you in particular.
I believe that “Aesthetics Maketh the Man”. You can judge much about one’s character simply by what they find beautiful or ugly, and you can judge their values and morals simply by how solid their aesthetics are.
Perhaps it is indeed easier or better to quantify “aesthetics” as the array of morals, values, sense of beauty and empirical metis that compromise a living being’s personality. Things that are intrinsically part of how we interact with the world and society at large.
But to actually answer your question: I have given thought to aesthetics from a rational(?) POV that I hadn’t bothered with before, and no, I haven’t ever went into a “major disagreement” that went anywhere near “well”. People can be very irrational towards things their own aesthetic sense considers “ugly”, even (or specially) within the rationalist community.