Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Roger Scruton and John Hawthorne
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics
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Aesthetics has risen and fallen with Romanticism [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
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The pleasure taken in beauty also aims at understanding and valuing [Scruton]
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Aesthetic experience informs the world with the values of the observer [Scruton]
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Art gives us imaginary worlds which we can view impartially [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 3. Taste
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Literary meaning emerges in comparisons, and tradition shows which comparisons are relevant [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty
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Maybe 'beauty' is too loaded, and we should talk of fittingness or harmony [Scruton]
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Beauty shows us what we should want in order to achieve human fulfilment [Scruton]
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Beauty is rationally founded, inviting meaning, comparison and self-reflection [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty
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Natural beauty reassures us that the world is where we belong [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
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Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton]
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Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton]
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Croce says art makes inarticulate intuitions conscious; rival views say the audience is the main concern [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language
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In literature, word replacement changes literary meaning [Scruton]
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If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music
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Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 1. Artistic Intentions
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Without intentions we can't perceive sculpture, but that is not the whole story [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 3. Artistic Representation
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In aesthetic interest, even what is true is treated as though it were not [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art
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Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 5. Objectivism in Art
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We can be objective about conventions, but love of art is needed to understand its traditions [Scruton]
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