Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of MindSt. Augustine's Press, 1998 - 256 pages This book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic, the second with questions in the philosophy of mind, and the third with questions in the philosophy of art. Thus the argument advances from a theory of aesthetic judgment (and in particular of "aesthetic description"), to a theory of aesthetic appreciation, and thence to an account of the nature and value of art. |
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Page 43
... directed must , then , be abandoned . Whether or not any conclusions can be drawn from a more plausible analysis of aesthetic description remains to be seen . But we have to admit that both attempts at explaining the notion of aesthetic ...
... directed must , then , be abandoned . Whether or not any conclusions can be drawn from a more plausible analysis of aesthetic description remains to be seen . But we have to admit that both attempts at explaining the notion of aesthetic ...
Page 141
... directed at the object purely as a member of a class . Moral appreciation , on the other hand , is essentially directed at a property or class , and this feature brings in its train the logical property of universalisability . But this ...
... directed at the object purely as a member of a class . Moral appreciation , on the other hand , is essentially directed at a property or class , and this feature brings in its train the logical property of universalisability . But this ...
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... directed towards the estuary , as my present interest is directed towards it . Nor is the estuary merely the occasion of this feeling . The experience is not caused by the sight of the estuary in the way that it is caused by the wine ...
... directed towards the estuary , as my present interest is directed towards it . Nor is the estuary merely the occasion of this feeling . The experience is not caused by the sight of the estuary in the way that it is caused by the wine ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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