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Single Idea 20387
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
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Full Idea
It was suggested that aesthetic experience isn't solely perceptual. It's infused by a cognitive but non-conceptual process described by Kant as involving the free play of the imagination and the understanding.
Gist of Idea
Aesthetic experience involves perception, but also imagination and understanding
Source
Stephen Davies (The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed) [2016], 1.2)
Book Ref
Davies,Stephen: 'The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed)' [Wiley Blackwell 2016], p.7
A Reaction
This fits literature very well, painting quite well, and music hardly at all.
The
24 ideas
from Stephen Davies
20387
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Aesthetic experience involves perception, but also imagination and understanding
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20385
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The faculty of 'taste' was posited to explain why only some people had aesthetic appreciation
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20386
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The sublime is negative in awareness of insignificance, and positive in showing understanding
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20384
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The idea that art forms are linked into a single concept began in the 1740s
[Davies,S]
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20388
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'Necessary' conditions are requirements, and 'sufficient' conditions are guarantees
[Davies,S]
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20389
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A definition of a thing gives all the requirements which add up to a guarantee of it
[Davies,S]
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20391
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Feminists warn that ideologies use timeless objective definitions as a tool of repression
[Davies,S]
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20390
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Defining art as representation or expression or form were all undermined by the avant-garde
[Davies,S]
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20392
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'Aesthetic functionalism' says art is what is intended to create aesthetic experiences
[Davies,S]
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20393
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The 'institutional' theory says art is just something appropriately placed in the 'artworld'
[Davies,S]
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20395
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The title of a painting can be vital, and the artist decrees who the portrait represents
[Davies,S]
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20396
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We must know what the work is meant to be, to evaluate the artist's achievement
[Davies,S]
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20397
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If we could perfectly clone the Mona Lisa, the original would still be special
[Davies,S]
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20398
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Art that is multiply instanced may require at least one instance
[Davies,S]
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20399
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Intentionalism says either meaning just is intention, or ('moderate') meaning is successful intention
[Davies,S]
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20401
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The meaning is given by the audience's best guess at the author's intentions
[Davies,S]
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20402
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Music is too definite to be put into words (not too indefinite!)
[Davies,S]
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20405
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Music may be expressive by being 'associated' with other emotional words or events
[Davies,S]
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20403
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It seems unlikely that sad music expresses a composer's sadness; it takes ages to write
[Davies,S]
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20404
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Music isn't just sad because it makes the listener feel sad
[Davies,S]
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22704
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Immorality may or may not be an artistic defect
[Davies,S]
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22705
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If the depiction of evil is glorified, that is an artistic flaw
[Davies,S]
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22707
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It is an artistic defect if excessive moral outrage distorts the story, and narrows our sympathies
[Davies,S]
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22706
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A work which seeks approval for immorality, but alienates the audience, is a failure
[Davies,S]
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