But, and pace Aristotle apd his fans, I see no way to construe works of a in this way as long as they are considered a works of art. Considered o trying to learn G wise, there may be a way to make comparisons. If you're man, it may be better to attend a performance of Mozart's Magic Flute th listen to his Marriage of Figaro, and if you'd like to gain a sense of Victor England, you might better read Dickens than Mark Twain. We are not consid ering them otherwise, however, and the question is, what could establish that The Marriage of Figaro is better than The Magic Flute, or that Huckleberry Finn is better than anything by Dickens, even David Copperfield It is not that no one has tried to show such things. Indeed, the history of the philosophy of art, as well as all of art criticism, music criticism, and the rest, are