Irish PhilosophyIt's #Shakespeare 's birthday #otd (probably).
Iris Murdoch on basing aesthetics, not on definitions, but on the concrete.
"let us start by saying that Shakespeare is the greatest of all artists, and let our aesthetic grow to be the philosophical justification of this judgement."
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/04/23/shakespeare-aesthetics-and-morality/