ABSTRACT
This chapter is about what are sometimes called aesthetic values. I hedge a little in the use of the term aesthetic values because it implies a set of identifiable criteria which have to be met for, usually, a work of art to be considered good. Philosophically I find this position difficult to maintain. There is no way in which aesthetic value can be objectively identified or measured. There are no criteria which transcend time and geography which we can apply to a work to ascertain its aesthetic merit.
