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Full Idea
It is possible to conclude that aesthetic experience has a peculiar practical significance: it represents the world as informed by the values of the observer.
Gist of Idea
Aesthetic experience informs the world with the values of the observer
Source
Roger Scruton (Recent Aesthetics in England and America [1980], p.13)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'The Aesthetic Understanding' [Methuen 1983], p.13
A Reaction
An excellent remark. If you look at, or listen to, anything, you can make a conscious effort to drain away your personal values (objectivity; science?), or you can consciously flood them with values. But moral and aesthetic vision must differ...