Sentences with phrase «by aesthetic delight»

Certainly, he continues, «at some point judgment is eclipsed by aesthetic delight» — revealing that propositions in their simplest and most fundamental form are entertaining and for entertainment (PR 184f / 281).

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But let's remember that this aesthetic delight is mainly savored by the outside observer, often a professional savorer like myself.

Both «symbolic reference» and «propositional feelings» have receptive and imaginative aspects; but, whereas Whitehead emphasized the former, cognitive aspect in his discussion of «symbolic reference,» as a rebuttal to Hume and Kant, he emphasized the latter, creative aspect in his discussion of «propositions,» an emphasis needed to counter «the interest in logic, dominating over-intellectualized philosophers,» among whom «aesthetic delight» is eclipsed by «judgment» (cf. PR 184 - 86 and WH 33) In «symbolic reference» a dim, but indirect, mode of perception («causal efficacy») is combined with a clear, but indirect, mode of perception («presentational immediacy»), which produces a sense of the external world.

The delight and the discipline in the aesthetic experience are nicely recorded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, two of the greatest modern painters.

Thus moral insights are intuitions of God's good and perfect will, and aesthetic delight is a sharing in the Creator's joy in creation, just as the wonderful cosmic order discovered by science is truly a reflection of the mind of God.

Translators invariably mute Aristotle's aesthetic delight in war by translating «beautiful» as «noble,» «fine,» «admirable» and the like.

Amy, I am deeply offended, by which I mean secretly delighted, that you think enough testosterone courses through my male - critic aesthetic to have clouded my judgment about Ryan Coogler's thoughtful, savvy, fluid, heartfelt, emotional relaunch of a franchise so dormant that six months ago we wouldn't have even called it a franchise!

In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who «fears love almost as much as he fears hatred» may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.