Single Idea 18546

[catalogued under 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude]

Full Idea

Like the pleasure in friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.

Gist of Idea

The pleasure taken in beauty also aims at understanding and valuing

Source

Roger Scruton (Beauty: a very short introduction [2011], 1)

Book Reference

Scruton,Roger: 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' [OUP 2011], p.26


A Reaction

At least he is trying to pin down the way in which aesthetic pleasure is phenomenologically different from other kinds of pleasure.