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Single Idea 18550
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
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Full Idea
One aim of art is to present imaginary worlds, towards which we can adopt, as part of the integral aesthetic attitude, a posture of impartial concern.
Gist of Idea
Art gives us imaginary worlds which we can view impartially
Source
Roger Scruton (Beauty: a very short introduction [2011], 5)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' [OUP 2011], p.90
A Reaction
It connects to the pleasure of watching people when they don't know they are being watched (such as watching the street from a restaurant window). Scruton's suggestion makes art resemble examples in philosophy. Cf the Frege-Geach problem in ethics.
Related Idea
Idea 2851
Emotivists find it hard to analyse assertions of moral principles, rather than actual judgements [Brink]
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[distinctive frame of mind in aesthetic experience]:
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18545
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The disinterested attitude of the judge is the hallmark of a judgement of beauty
[Shaftesbury, by Scruton]
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18552
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Forget about beauty; just concentrate on the virtues of delicacy and discernment admired in critics
[Hume, by Scruton]
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18547
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Only rational beings can experience beauty
[Kant, by Scruton]
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20346
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The aesthetic attitude is a matter of disinterestedness
[Kant, by Wollheim]
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22043
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Hegel largely ignores aesthetic pleasure, taste and beauty, and focuses on the meaning of artworks
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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21370
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Schopenhauer is a chief proponent of aesthetic experience as 'disinterested'
[Schopenhauer, by Janaway]
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7194
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Experiencing a thing as beautiful is to experience it wrongly
[Nietzsche]
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20424
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Imaginative life requires no action, so new kinds of perception and values emerge in art
[Fry]
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20427
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Everyone reveals an aesthetic attitude, looking at something which only exists to be seen
[Fry]
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23928
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Good art produces exaltation and detachment
[Bell,C]
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5933
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Aesthetic enjoyment combines pleasure with insight
[Ross]
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6606
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Consider: "Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful"
[Wittgenstein]
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20342
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Interpretation is performance for some arts, and critical for all arts
[Wollheim]
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20343
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A love of nature must precede a love of art
[Wollheim]
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20443
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The aesthetic attitude is nothing more than paying close attention
[Dickie, by Giovannelli]
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18546
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The pleasure taken in beauty also aims at understanding and valuing
[Scruton]
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18550
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Art gives us imaginary worlds which we can view impartially
[Scruton]
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12158
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Aesthetic experience informs the world with the values of the observer
[Scruton]
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22703
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We don't often respond to events in art as if they were real events
[Jacobson,D]
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22687
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Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend
[Gaut]
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20387
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Aesthetic experience involves perception, but also imagination and understanding
[Davies,S]
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