Aesthetics

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1. Ballet

   By Boydstun, July 16, 2020
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   • Boydstun
   • December 28, 2024

2. My Thoughts on the Objectivist Aesthetics

   By KyaryPamyu, December 2, 2022
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   • swampyyy
   • October 17, 2024

3. Why is Modern Art so Bad? 1 2

   By c_prompt, July 1, 2015
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   • swampyyy
   • October 17, 2024

4. Top Secret

   By Reidy, June 20, 2023
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   • Boydstun
   • August 3, 2023

5. The Nietzschean Origins of Skyscrapers

   By Reidy, March 25, 2023
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   • Grames
   • March 29, 2023

6. What is wrong with art that depicts life as it is, instead of art that depicts ideals that few or none ever actualize?

   By The Laws of Biology, January 23, 2022
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   • Boydstun
   • January 23, 2022

7. Death Note

   By Mammon, June 16, 2007
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   • Lina Stephens
   • December 20, 2021

8. Does aesthetics really belong in philosophy? 1 2

   By stevetherawman, January 17, 2014
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   • Eiuol
   • February 19, 2021

9. 'Psycho-Epistemology of Art' Questions

   By Jonathan Weissberg, December 21, 2020
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   • Jonathan Weissberg
   • December 30, 2020

10. Extracting Maximum Value from Art

    By Jonathan Weissberg, December 22, 2020
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    • Jonathan Weissberg
    • December 22, 2020

11. Are Pick Up Artists Legitimate Artists?

    By dadmonson, May 7, 2018
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    • Jonathan Weissberg
    • December 21, 2020

12. A question concerning Rand's definition of art

    By RationalEgoist, November 19, 2020
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    • whYNOT
    • December 3, 2020

13. Joseph Campbell's Monomyth 1 2 3 4

    By dream_weaver, April 9, 2017
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    • dream_weaver
    • December 17, 2019

14. Supernaturalism In Cinema

    By MisterSwig, June 29, 2019   

    • superhero movies
    • harry potter
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    • dream_weaver
    • June 30, 2019

15. Ivan Yefremov's aesthetics

    By Ilya Startsev, March 11, 2019
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    • Ilya Startsev
    • March 11, 2019

16. Manichitrathazhu Movie

    By human_murda, November 12, 2018   

    • dance
    • bharatanatyam
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    • human_murda
    • November 12, 2018

17. Art and Sense of Life - Explained 1 2

    By KyaryPamyu, May 25, 2017   

    • art
    • aesthetics
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      • aesthetics
      • sense of life
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    • Ninth Doctor
    • June 1, 2017

18. Star Trek DS9 episode with Objectivist themes: s03e09 "Distant Voices"

    By Szalapski, May 3, 2017
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    • Szalapski
    • May 3, 2017

19. Anime

    By VECT, October 20, 2009
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    • Iku
    • November 3, 2016

20. What does Objectivism say about the painting of Bob Ross?

    By happiness, September 14, 2016
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    • Alfa
    • September 26, 2016

21. A movie about Ayn Rand

    By Severinian, March 17, 2015
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    • Severinian
    • March 22, 2015

22. "Dark" art

    By Severinian, August 28, 2014
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    • fourtytwo
    • September 11, 2014

23. Interview with Jony Ive - Apple's head of design

    By Kate87, September 6, 2014
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    • Kate87
    • September 6, 2014

24. Wolf of Wall Street. Terrible.

    By LoBagola, January 25, 2014
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    • Dante
    • January 30, 2014

25. Tattoo Ideas 1 2 3 4

    By CapitalistSwine, January 18, 2010
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    • theestevearnold
    • January 22, 2014