kalology
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek καλός (kalós, “beautiful”) kalo- + -logy.
Noun edit
kalology (uncountable)
- The study of beauty; aesthetics
- 1950, William Pepperell Montague, Great visions of philosophy:
- They are the questions of methodology, of metaphysics, and of kalology. First: What are the ways in which we should attain and verify our knowledge, and how should we interpret truth when we have attained it — as subjective and dependent upon our minds, or as objective and identical with reality?