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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... thing , so the objects of aesthetic interest are the ' aesthetic ' qualities of a thing - the features named by the ' second- order ' descriptions of which I gave examples above . This suggestion is , on the face of it , highly ...
... thing , so the objects of aesthetic interest are the ' aesthetic ' qualities of a thing - the features named by the ' second- order ' descriptions of which I gave examples above . This suggestion is , on the face of it , highly ...
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... thing for its own sake ' in terms of desire . For it might be said that every desire is a desire for something , and that , while one often desires a thing because it is a means to something else it cannot be the case that all desires ...
... thing for its own sake ' in terms of desire . For it might be said that every desire is a desire for something , and that , while one often desires a thing because it is a means to something else it cannot be the case that all desires ...
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... thing . Indeed , we describe a landscape as beautiful only if it shows the kind of relationship to human endeavour that is characteristic of an artefact . The Highlands of Scotland have little beauty , although they may once have been ...
... thing . Indeed , we describe a landscape as beautiful only if it shows the kind of relationship to human endeavour that is characteristic of an artefact . The Highlands of Scotland have little beauty , although they may once have been ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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