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This is an argument for God's existence that is often overlooked by Atheists and Christians alike, it's often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and thus there is no objectivity to it in the same way one can argue for the objectivity of moral values and duties being grounded in God. Having taken a philosophy of Aesthetics class for my Masters program, I have decided to give the argument from aesthetic values and judgements a second look and discovered how rich the area is in providing an good apologetical argument for God.
By identifying 7 fundamental features about the nature of aesthetic values and the associated judgements we make about them, I identify and assess a total of 7 different theories in the Philosophy of Aesthetics and show why "Theistic Dispositional Realism" (i.e., Non-Natural Agentism) is best explanation relative to the other competing explanatory hypotheses- including Emotivism, Pure Natural Objectivism, 3 Evolutionary Accounts (Natural/Sexual Selection, the Biophilia Hypothesis and Social Cohesion Theory), Pure Natural Subjectivism, Atheistic Aesthetic Platonism and finally end off by comparing and contrasting Natural (or Atheistic) Dispositional Realism with the Theistic counterpart.
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This is an argument for God's existence that is often overlooked by Atheists and Christians alike, it's often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and thus there is no objectivity to it in the same way one can argue for the objectivity of moral values and duties being grounded in God. Having taken a philosophy of Aesthetics class for my Masters program, I have decided to give the argument from aesthetic values and judgements a second look and discovered how rich the area is in providing an good apologetical argument for God.
By identifying 7 fundamental features about the nature of aesthetic values and the associated judgements we make about them, I identify and assess a total of 7 different theories in the Philosophy of Aesthetics and show why "Theistic Dispositional Realism" (i.e., Non-Natural Agentism) is best explanation relative to the other competing explanatory hypotheses- including Emotivism, Pure Natural Objectivism, 3 Evolutionary Accounts (Natural/Sexual Selection, the Biophilia Hypothesis and Social Cohesion Theory), Pure Natural Subjectivism, Atheistic Aesthetic Platonism and finally end off by comparing and contrasting Natural (or Atheistic) Dispositional Realism with the Theistic counterpart.

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