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Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2103.
#2103·Dennis HackethalOP, 18 days agoJustin says no philosopher would drop the ‘a’, including Tom Hyde, whom Justin calls a serious British philosopher.
Ayn Rand’s book The Romantic Manifesto has 114 matches for the string ‘esthetic’ and no matches for the string ‘aesthetic’. Rand was a serious philosopher who did extensive work on art and (a)esthetics.
There’s also her talk ‘The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age’, though it may have been the Ayn Rand Institute that chose that spelling.