ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nature of reasons that can support evaluative judgments about artworks. Such judgments range from broad evaluations of whole works to ascriptions of the narrower evaluative properties such as balance or raucousness. The chapter examines the latter, though still including evaluative responses of suitable critics, rest on more easily specified objective bases. It discusses both in the epistemic relation between ascribing the narrower evaluative properties and evaluating artworks as a whole and in how justify the narrower ascriptions by citing objective or non evaluative properties of works. The chapter suggests that hold aesthetic judgments to be justified through deductive argumerits or by appeal to aesthetic principles or laws. It emphasizes the impossibility of certain kinds of generalizations in aesthetics. The chapter offers an analysis of aesthetic judgments according to which they are descriptive, expressive, and prescriptive or normative at the same time.
