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The most prominent philosophical opponent of aesthetic relativism was Immanuel Kant, who argued that the judgement of beauty, while subjective, is universal.
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Aesthetic relativism is a variety of the philosophy known generally as relativism, which casts doubt on the possibility of direct
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claim that statements made about the external world can be known to be objectively true. Other varieties of relativism include
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as well as of aesthetic judgement. (A frequently-cited source for philosophical relativism in
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Aesthetic relativism might be regarded as a sub-set of an overall philosophical
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Philosophers who have been influential in relativist thinking include
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Philosophers who have given influential objectivist accounts include
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access to the "external world", and which therefore rejects the
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to differences in perception and consideration, and
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