Treating certain expressions as inherently beautiful is a philosophical error.
Evidence
- An error of an aesthetic nature, which today is increasingly being corrected but which in the past used to be a dominant doctrine, is the notion that certain expressions as opposed to others are “beautiful” in themselves in that they are crystallised metaphors: rhetoricians and grammarians drool on about certain little phrases in which they discern God knows what abstract artistic virtues and essentiality. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1602
Categorization
- XREF: This aesthetic critique maps onto poststructuralist anti-essentialism later used in representation theory — worth carrying forward.