Although it is said that aesthetics is everywhere, and our daily life contains such complex aesthetic phenomena and aesthetic problems, it seems that these are not aesthetics itself. When you systematically observe these phenomena and think about them abstractly, aesthetics emerges as a kind of knowledge. "Aesthetics" is a biased phrase, and "beauty" modifies "learning". "Learning" means "learning" and "theory". Semantically speaking, aesthetics seems to be the "knowledge" about "beauty", just like biology is about biology, and pedagogy is about education, it is a kind of knowledge, a knowledge system of a discipline. If you go to the library to borrow aesthetic books, you must first check which category the aesthetic books belong to, otherwise you will be looking for a needle in a haystack. With the development of science to this day, not only knowledge of various disciplines has been systematized, but the entire human knowledge system has also been systematized. Just as tourism requires a map, and navigation requires a route map, the aesthetics of search must also examine its location and nature. Since it is a kind of academic knowledge, to understand aesthetics, it is necessary to find out its taxonomic position in the human knowledge system.

The progress of knowledge is not only reflected in the renewal and development of knowledge concepts, but also in the systematization and classification of knowledge itself. Historically speaking, human knowledge did not show specific distinguishing characteristics in ancient times. In primitive culture, various kinds of knowledge of religion, philosophy, aesthetics, medicine and technology were mixed in primitive religion. The development of knowledge is, to some extent, a constant differentiation, which today is astonishing. In elementary school, there are Chinese and mathematics. In middle school, there are Chinese, mathematics, foreign language, physics, chemistry, and students. In university, the distinction between majors and departments is more specific, specialized, and subtle. To understand aesthetics, you must not go to the wrong door. So, what is the place of aesthetics in the classification system of human knowledge? To clarify this question, we must answer the question of how aesthetics appeared in history. Once this question is touched, our appreciation of aesthetic landscapes also enters into a historical perspective.

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the understanding of beauty and taste, and the appreciation of art, literature and style. The question it seeks to answer is: Is beauty or ugliness inherent in the object under investigation? Or in the eyes of spectators? Among other things, aesthetics also seeks to analyze the concepts and arguments used in discussing these issues, to examine the aesthetic state of the mind, and to evaluate those objects as aesthetic statements.

Created in the middle of the 18th century, aesthetics has been a branch of philosophy from the very beginning, with logic (or epistemology) and ethics in triad. This positioning clarifies the disciplinary nature of aesthetics. If we go to the library to look up aesthetics books, then there is always a subdirectory of aesthetics in the philosophy book code. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy, but if we look at it from a broader perspective, how are aesthetics and the philosophy to which it belongs in the entire human knowledge system? This is a larger question that needs to be examined in a broader perspective. Aesthetics belongs to philosophy, and philosophy belongs to the humanities, so aesthetics also belongs to the humanities. This conclusion helps us understand the nature and characteristics of aesthetics.