The Ethical Significance of the Aesthetic Experience of Non
... The line between what counts as active and what counts as passive engagement is perhaps just as controversial as the line between representational and non-representational art. However, I wish to use „active‟ in more than in its minimal sense. Although most cognitive scientists see perception itsel ...
... The line between what counts as active and what counts as passive engagement is perhaps just as controversial as the line between representational and non-representational art. However, I wish to use „active‟ in more than in its minimal sense. Although most cognitive scientists see perception itsel ...
Matthew Shen Goodman SOAN Senior Comprehensive Thesis
... from taking a vital part in one's life. However, as Kant writes in the following sentence, "Only through that which he does without regard to enjoyment, in full freedom and independently of that which nature could passively provide for him, does he give his being as the existence of a person an abso ...
... from taking a vital part in one's life. However, as Kant writes in the following sentence, "Only through that which he does without regard to enjoyment, in full freedom and independently of that which nature could passively provide for him, does he give his being as the existence of a person an abso ...
Aesthetics as Philosophy of Experience
... with an imaginary world of art, but of judges and critics of the past. However, in this case, the motive that guided them or the criteria that was followed is not known. The problem of the choice and evaluation of what is uniquely art is avoided by transferring it to someone else, thus obscuring the ...
... with an imaginary world of art, but of judges and critics of the past. However, in this case, the motive that guided them or the criteria that was followed is not known. The problem of the choice and evaluation of what is uniquely art is avoided by transferring it to someone else, thus obscuring the ...
The abuse of beauty Daedalus, Fall 2002 by Danto, Arthur C It is self
... pretensions of what we might call 'high' philosophy - the cosmo-tragical visions of the Existentialists or of the towering titans of metaphysics who loomed behind them - by criticizing its language against either the standards of ordinary discourse - where we know whereof we speak - or of a scientif ...
... pretensions of what we might call 'high' philosophy - the cosmo-tragical visions of the Existentialists or of the towering titans of metaphysics who loomed behind them - by criticizing its language against either the standards of ordinary discourse - where we know whereof we speak - or of a scientif ...
History and Moral Exempla in Enlightenment
... examples of the first in a way that we are not by the general theories of the second. Poetry (literature) here is strongly connected to history: it gives specific, sensuous examples of the right (or wrong) form of behavior in given situations. This theory, thus, made a clear break with the tradition ...
... examples of the first in a way that we are not by the general theories of the second. Poetry (literature) here is strongly connected to history: it gives specific, sensuous examples of the right (or wrong) form of behavior in given situations. This theory, thus, made a clear break with the tradition ...
An Essay on the Beautiful
... the works of this last philosopher are particularly valuable to all who desire to penetrate into the depths of this divine wisdom. From the exalted nature of his genius, he was called Intellect by his contemporaries, and is said to have composed his books under the influence of divine illumination. ...
... the works of this last philosopher are particularly valuable to all who desire to penetrate into the depths of this divine wisdom. From the exalted nature of his genius, he was called Intellect by his contemporaries, and is said to have composed his books under the influence of divine illumination. ...
Beauty as harmony of the soul: the aesthetic of the Stoics
... was manifested in right actions and objects as beauty. Panaetius treated beauty as a natural drive, along with the drive towards community, knowledge and ambition (Ferguson, 2003:361). This drive towards beauty can be understood in the light of the Stoic perspective generally as a manifestation of r ...
... was manifested in right actions and objects as beauty. Panaetius treated beauty as a natural drive, along with the drive towards community, knowledge and ambition (Ferguson, 2003:361). This drive towards beauty can be understood in the light of the Stoic perspective generally as a manifestation of r ...
Recentering Musicology and the Philosophy of Music
... It might be thought that we should ask: what is musical experience? The trouble with this question is that experiences of music vary a great deal. Some music may remind me of a childhood event, for example. A slightly better question seems to be: what is the nature of the experience of music when we ...
... It might be thought that we should ask: what is musical experience? The trouble with this question is that experiences of music vary a great deal. Some music may remind me of a childhood event, for example. A slightly better question seems to be: what is the nature of the experience of music when we ...
Aesthetics
... considered design instead of art, or contrariwise these may be defended as art forms, perhaps called applied art. Some thinkers, for instance, have argued that the difference between fine art and applied art has more to do with the actual function of the object than any clear definitional differenc ...
... considered design instead of art, or contrariwise these may be defended as art forms, perhaps called applied art. Some thinkers, for instance, have argued that the difference between fine art and applied art has more to do with the actual function of the object than any clear definitional differenc ...
fiBeauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
... thinking of the philosophy of Plato, which has been influencing the philosophical thinking of the Occident for centuries. Plato’s central idea was that we only perceive a shadowy reality with our physical eyes. We can only see the true reality with our spiritual eyes. According to Plato, we carry im ...
... thinking of the philosophy of Plato, which has been influencing the philosophical thinking of the Occident for centuries. Plato’s central idea was that we only perceive a shadowy reality with our physical eyes. We can only see the true reality with our spiritual eyes. According to Plato, we carry im ...
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... Beauty is a problem for Kant: it is an immediate experience “in” us, and yet we perceive beauty “in” things; therefore, we act as if “x is beautiful” is universally true. Beauty appears to be in other things, and yet it is justified by our own immediate experiences – so what guarantees that somethin ...
... Beauty is a problem for Kant: it is an immediate experience “in” us, and yet we perceive beauty “in” things; therefore, we act as if “x is beautiful” is universally true. Beauty appears to be in other things, and yet it is justified by our own immediate experiences – so what guarantees that somethin ...
Ron Dermer
... explained, is the material expression of philosophy. Whereas the philosopher uses a pen to grapple with the fundamental questions of human existence, the artist has so many instruments from which to choose, whether it be a brush, a chisel, a lens or countless others. Yet art, she believed, must be m ...
... explained, is the material expression of philosophy. Whereas the philosopher uses a pen to grapple with the fundamental questions of human existence, the artist has so many instruments from which to choose, whether it be a brush, a chisel, a lens or countless others. Yet art, she believed, must be m ...
Beauty - CSU, Chico
... This inter-disciplinary Honors course aims to help students explore questions about the nature of virtue. At its most basic, virtue is a concern with the sort of person that we think we “ought” to be or the sort of character that we want to see in other people. Though it is often viewed as part of m ...
... This inter-disciplinary Honors course aims to help students explore questions about the nature of virtue. At its most basic, virtue is a concern with the sort of person that we think we “ought” to be or the sort of character that we want to see in other people. Though it is often viewed as part of m ...
Beauty in the Ear of the Beholder
... listener deeply, Hanslick believed that this emotional response was no more than a side-effect. The true beauty of the music was to be found within the music itself. Perhaps even more controversially at the time, Hanslick claimed further that beautiful music could never be written as a narrative rep ...
... listener deeply, Hanslick believed that this emotional response was no more than a side-effect. The true beauty of the music was to be found within the music itself. Perhaps even more controversially at the time, Hanslick claimed further that beautiful music could never be written as a narrative rep ...
Rape of Aphrodite
... Postmodernism. The fetishistic penchant of Post-structuralists and Post-modernists has made the treatment of art and literature destructively convoluted and obfuscated, and offers infinite leeway for analysis of any kind. The trite adage ''Kill the writer’’ has been grossly misused and misidentified ...
... Postmodernism. The fetishistic penchant of Post-structuralists and Post-modernists has made the treatment of art and literature destructively convoluted and obfuscated, and offers infinite leeway for analysis of any kind. The trite adage ''Kill the writer’’ has been grossly misused and misidentified ...
From science to arts
... Analysis, emotion and sensibility are integral components of both the scientific and the artistic process. three levels of aesthetic experience - sensual, emotional/imaginative and analytical - are common to the experience and process of science and art. The same applies for such elements as the pla ...
... Analysis, emotion and sensibility are integral components of both the scientific and the artistic process. three levels of aesthetic experience - sensual, emotional/imaginative and analytical - are common to the experience and process of science and art. The same applies for such elements as the pla ...
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... Darwinian theory of human aesthetic value is that beauty is promise of function in the environments in which humans evolved (i.e., of high likelihood of survival and reproductive success in the environments of human evolutionary history).” [Thornhill 1998, p. 544] Part of scientific aesthetics O ...
... Darwinian theory of human aesthetic value is that beauty is promise of function in the environments in which humans evolved (i.e., of high likelihood of survival and reproductive success in the environments of human evolutionary history).” [Thornhill 1998, p. 544] Part of scientific aesthetics O ...