The course will discuss (based on reading relevant texts) the major topics of the Western aesthetics in order to provide both theoretical and methodological tools for a systematic approach to arts a from a philosophical perspective
Among the topics to be explored are some of the following : beauty, the aesthetic (aesthetic judgment, qualities, experience, objects, etc.), interrelationships and classification of arts, environmental aesthetics , aesthetics of architecture, and theoretical approaches to the arts. The general questions will be discussed with specific references to interior design, architecture and the visual arts.