A Simple Theory of Aesthetic Value.

The article presents an answer to the aesthetic-value question (AVQ), including the genus-differentia definition of AV. Other topics include the reason why AV is perceptual as seen in the perception of objects as having AV, the things that make aesthetic value aesthetic and valuable, how the species aesthetic value is different from other forms of value, the ontological relationship between differentia aesthetic and species aesthetic value, and why the eighteenth-century theory that aesthetic value and aesthetic judgment are a conceptual pair.