That said, we should recognize that the distinction between aesthetic and utilitarian interests is no more clear than the language used to define it.
Wanting something for its beauty is wanting it, not wanting to do something with it.
Here is a want without a goal: a desire that cannot be fulfilled since there is nothing that would count as its fulfilment.
The example resembles one given by Wittgenstein in his Lectures on Aesthetics.
we should concentrate on pure form, detached from utility.
Always there is the demand that we approach beauty for its own sake, as a goal that qualifies and limits whatever other purposes we might have.
There is an ancient view that beauty is the object of a sensory
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