esthete, æsthete (esthet)

[ You perhaps mean the mania of the æsthetes - boudoir pictures with Mei onier as the chief deity-an art of mere fashions and whims. A. D. White , Century's Me age, p. 16. Esthonian II. n. 1. The science of beauty. See esthetics . It is now nearly a century since Baumgarten, a celebrated philosopher of the Leibnitzio-Wolfian school, first applied the term æsthetic to the doctrine which we vaguely and periphrastically denominate the philosophy of taste, the theory of the fine arts, the science of the beautiful and sublime, etc.; and this term is now in general acceptance, not only in Germany, but throughout the other countries of Europe. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. In the Kantian philos, the fomity sensa tion (space and time), or of sensibility. Tran scendental esthetic, in the Kantian philos., the science of the a prior i principles of sensibility, space, and time. Its main proposition, according to Kant, is that space and time are pure intuitions and forms of sensibility, not things, or forms of things, independent of the perceiving mind.