As often happens in our world, when a concept is used both in a case and not in a case, then the words are hidden and lose their meaning! This happened with the words aesthetics and aesthetics that came to our language from the grace of ancient Greece.
Aesthetics and aesthetics - words are not abusive
Aesthetics, in the initial sense, is a philosophical, book concept that reveals the essence of the process of a person's knowledge of the world through his sensory perceptions. That is, an esthete is a person who is able to feel.
And since there are no people in the world who are not able to feel, we are all philosophically aesthetes. The opposite of an esthete is a logician. And there are few such people, but for some reason it is they who are scolded with the word "esthet" in our time.
Beauty and expediency
Nature seeks expediency, which means beauty. So once Aristotle counted and wrote down this idea, but, having thought a little on this subject, he passed on to other questions. And after him, his followers made an axiom out of this almost random phrase. And a dead-end philosophical current arose. Over the course of a century, it descended into the void, but their words were picked up by the artists, and it turned out that the aesthetic is not just any person, but some kind of a particularly sensitive world.
Philosophers gave artists these terms for use and tackled deeper issues. And the words went for a walk among the people, until they acquired an ironic, dismissive coloring. Now, for most ordinary people, an esthete is that person whom people around do not understand, because, in his opinion, all of them are too rude. In Russian, for the definition of this type of people there is an exact term - "with a fool", that is, a person behaves like this without the goal of deceiving someone for his own benefit, but just like that, on a hunch, because there is no other way to live can.
But be that as it may, beauty and expediency exist in the world. The connection between these concepts is doubtful, but the artists nevertheless systematized them as they could. They are usually at odds with logic, therefore the world of esthete, in the artistic sense of this phrase, is ambivalent and pretentious.
Aesthetics is the science of beauty
When philosophers returned to a topic abandoned for 2000 years, at the beginning of the 20th century they formed a science of beauty for artists - an aesthetics with which they try to find out: why does one person consider beautiful and the other ugly? And some successes have been achieved. It turned out that the object itself is neither beautiful nor ugly. He becomes such only in the feelings of a particular person. Then philosophers identified a special type from the total mass of mankind and called these people aesthetes.
Most of us take into our inner world up to 5 years the canons of beauty as we are brought up and then follow them until the end of our lives. And an esthete is one that forms the canons of beauty for itself, and not until 5 years old, but until the end of its life. Such people make real artists, pioneers, lovers to the daze, and other restless personalities.
A normal serving of aesthetics is good for everyone.
If we exclude the concepts of beautiful and aesthetic from a person’s life, he grunts with a piglet the very next day. It is beauty that often keeps us from ugly deeds. Some do not even hang themselves just because a person in this action does not look aesthetically pleasing.
And people of art, for example, actors in theaters, even try to quarrel among themselves beautifully and aesthetically. Most would take an example from them, and not in anything else. It’s difficult to call the same acting
“nose pulling up” beautiful.
In a normal measure, designers caught the sense of aesthetics. They make household and useful things attractive in appearance. And it’s nice that they don’t pretend to be exceptional and do not teach us. But the workers of the so-called haute couture replay somewhat. After all, aesthetics is not a mockery of human nature. And then from the cloying of their research sometimes turns. For example, a woman should not, no matter who claims, be like a nail. The law of golden sections does not exist for geometry.
So, everything that is not in moderation is not sensible, even beauty.