It is probably best to take aesthetic judgments as central.
We next inspected interaction effects of context on aesthetic ratings to assess different brain areas involved in aesthetic judgment for normal and abnormal context.
However, they considered those areas that were activated by both aesthetic and symmetry judgment to be not involved in pure aesthetic judgment and hence omitted them from the analysis that directly contrasted brain activity for the judged-as-beautiful vs. the judged-as-ugly stimuli.
These presuppositions of aesthetic judgments need to be explained and justified.
Second, Kant thinks that aesthetic judgments about both beauty and sublimity involve a kind of purposiveness, and that the beauty of nature in particular suggests to us that nature is hospitable to our ends.
But only the "mental" taste, the exercise of which is involved in moral and aesthetic judgment, admits of refinement through "the interposition" of ideas (T, 275).
And secondly, it is part of the meaning of substantive aesthetic judgments that they imply verdictive aesthetic judgments.
13 Authors note distinct neural substrates that subserve positive aesthetic judgments, including somatosensory cortical regions of the AON, 14, 15, 25 subcortical reward circuitry, 16– 18 and areas of prefrontal cortex involved in top-down processing and evaluative judgments.
Given the ontological diversity of the human entities, artifacts, and performances that are generally considered as aesthetic, the fundamental goals of aesthetics are to establish accounts of the nature of aesthetic entities, aesthetic properties, aesthetic judgments, and the process of aesthetic change over time.
"There are aesthetic judgments lurking everywhere.
