Method for calculating or optimizing a spectacle lens, including specifying at least one surface for the spectacle lens to be calculated or optimized; determining the course of a main ray through at least one visual point of the at least one surface; determining a first primary set and a second primary set of coefficients of the local aberration of a local wavefront; specifying at least one function which assigns a second secondary set of coefficients to a second primary set of coefficients, said second secondary set of coefficients defining the higher-order aberration of a propagated wavefront; determining a higher-order aberration of a local wavefront propagated starting from the at least one visual point along the main ray depending on at least the second primary set of coefficients on the basis of the specified function; and calculating or optimizing the at least one surface of the spectacle lens based on the determined higher-order aberration of the propagated local wavefront.