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PHIL343 Aesthetics

Updated: 27 October 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus C - Internet access required
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
19 April 2010 21 April 2010 Non-Mandatory
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites any 12cp or candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions PHIL443 or PHIL543
Notes None
Combined Units PHIL543 - Aesthetics
Coordinator(s) Anthony Lynch (alynch@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

Aesthetics is the philosophy of the arts of every kind. Important questions concern the relations between the beautiful, the sublime, the ugly, the banal, and the humourous. Other topics concern the relation of art to truth and to morality, and the questions of fiction and metaphor, and their analogs.

Materials Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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