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Ideas for 'Thinking About Mathematics', 'An Essay in Aesthetics' and 'Characteristics'

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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

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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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Imaginative life requires no action, so new kinds of perception and values emerge in art [Fry]

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Everyone reveals an aesthetic attitude, looking at something which only exists to be seen [Fry]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty

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'Beauty' can either mean sensuous charm, or the aesthetic approval of art (which may be ugly) [Fry]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime

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In life we neglect 'cosmic emotion', but it matters, and art brings it to the fore [Fry]