ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Aesthetic value is the value that an object, event, or state of affairs (most paradigmatically an artwork or the natural environment) possesses in virtue of its capacity to elicit pleasure (positive value) or displeasure (negative value) when appreciated or experienced aesthetically.

Detailed explanation-2: -They include the form, content, integrity, harmony, purity, or fittingness of works.

Detailed explanation-3: -The aesthetic value of the Natural Environment is apparent. For example, no one could disagree that a sunset or an aesthetic forest is beautiful.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the first view, the aesthetic appreciation of nature and of art are dis-tinguished only by the different natures of their objects, neither having priority over the other. According to the second view, the aesthetic appreciation of nature consists in nature’s being regarded as if it were art.