Aesthetics (or esthetics) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the definition of beauty. The word aesthetics was first used by the eighteenth-century German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, who derived it from the Greek aisthanomai, which means “perception by means of ...

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