естетичното

What is aesthetic?" - this is the question that begins the monograph of L. N. Stolovich "Aesthetics in Reality and in Art" (Moscow, 1959). "From the point of view of modern aesthetic science," the author writes, "those phenomena and objects of reality, those human abilities are characterized as aesthetic, which in one way or another are included in the special, special attitude of man to reality - the aesthetic attitude." As we see, a very general definition, the meaning of which is expressed in the fact that the aesthetic is understood as a special attitude. From this premise to a more comprehensive definition of the aesthetic, several directions are possible. Stolovich chose the one according to which the aesthetic attitude is determined by its object - the aesthetic properties of reality. They (beautiful, disgusting, ugly, tragic) exist objectively, independently of our will and our consciousness, although they are not outside of society and man. The author distinguishes himself from A. I. Burov, according to whom aesthetic qualities are not realized "without the perceiving subject."