The Arts becomes identified as a humanity, designed to make us aware of and sensitive to the varieties of human differences as expressed through the arts. Aesthetics has recently benefited from 'an ethical turn' a revival of long-standing debates about the moral function of narrative and the social impact of the arts, drawing aestheticians into the cultural value of arts education but it is not clear how mutually inclusive this categorisation could or should be. Environmental issues could be said to be founded in a aesthetic notion of the essential beauty and sublimity of nature. The sciences too are recognised as human artefacts based on realism. Some educators looking to the arts because they offer opportunities to move beyond consolidated texts and change human values through revitalising symbol and artistic ritual.
Art is the lie that becomes the truth.
Aesthetic education helps us to understand others as humans. What it is about this form of aesthetic experience that is unique to the arts remains to be examined continuously. The Aesthetic Point of View Cornell University Press Danto, Arthur 1981. A Critical Anthology . St Martin s Press.