Editing Beauty (section)

=== Others ===
[[G. E. Moore]] explained beauty in regard to [[Intrinsic value (ethics)|intrinsic value]] as "that of which the admiring contemplation is good in itself".<ref name="RoutledgeBeauty">{{cite book |last1=Craig |first1=Edward |title=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy |date=1996 |publisher=Routledge |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/BEAREO |chapter=Beauty |access-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116111145/https://philpapers.org/rec/BEAREO |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BeautyandUgliness"/> This definition connects beauty to experience while managing to avoid some of the problems usually associated with subjectivist positions since it allows that things may be beautiful even if they are never experienced.<ref name="RoutledgeBeauty"/>

Another subjectivist theory of beauty comes from [[George Santayana]], who suggested that we project pleasure onto the things we call "beautiful". So in a process akin to a [[category mistake]], one treats one's subjective pleasure as an objective property of the beautiful thing.<ref name="DeClercq2019"/><ref name="StanfordBeauty"/><ref name="BeautyandUgliness"/> Other conceptions include defining beauty in terms of a loving or longing attitude toward the beautiful object or in terms of its usefulness or function.<ref name="StanfordBeauty"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hansson |first1=Sven Ove |title=Aesthetic Functionalism |journal=Contemporary Aesthetics |date=2005 |volume=3 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/HANAF |access-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213052644/https://philpapers.org/rec/HANAF |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1871, functionalist [[Charles Darwin]] explained beauty as result of accumulative [[sexual selection]] in "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex".<ref name="BeautyandUgliness"/>