Self-study
Eighteenth-century European aesthetics was reasonably successful in providing an understanding of all art, including early abstract art, until the 1960s, when artists self-consciously rebelled against earlier notions of art. █████ ███ ████ ██ █████ ██████████ ███████ ██ █████ █████████ ███ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████ ████ ████████ █████ ███ ██ ██ ████████ ██████ ██ ███████████
Summarize Argument
The argument concludes that there cannot be any complete theory of aesthetics. This is supported by an example of a time period in the 1960s, when beautiful new art could not be understood by the time period’s current theory of aesthetics.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The argument is flawed because it fails to consider the possibility that another theory of aesthetics could be more complete than the theory current to the 1960s. Even if one specific theory of aesthetics turns out to be incomplete, there might still be some other theory of aesthetics that can provide an understanding of all art.
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The argument doesn’t make any claims about the importance of accounting for a certain kind of beauty over another.
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It doesn’t matter to the argument what the reason might have been for the artists’ rebellion in the 1960s.
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The argument simply doesn’t claim that an aesthetic theory from one part of the world cannot be applied to another.
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The argument doesn’t presume that 1960s art is the only example of art unaccounted for by eighteenth-century European aesthetic theory, but just uses it as an example to show that this aesthetic theory is incomplete.
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In concluding that no aesthetic theory can be complete, the argument presumes that no aesthetic theory can be more encompassing than the incomplete eighteenth-century European aesthetic theory. This isn’t supported further, so it’s an unjustified presumption.