There is no denying that such feelings of aesthetic pleasure may exist, indeed that they do exist. The problem is to see where they come from. Matters are, at least from the philosophical point of view, still relatively simple where we have to deal with feelings of aesthetic pleasure directed towards aesthetic objects in the first two categories of simple sensations and purely formal Gestalten. For here we have to deal with real (indeed with what seems to be principally causal) relations between perceiving subjects on the one hand and material objects, events or processes on the other. Thus the.
