Sentences with phrase «esthetic excellence»

Both of these aspects of esthetic excellence are closely akin in that in the absence of finesse even a well - designed thing can not function in the manner appropriate to it.

Since esthetic experience is concerned with individuation, which is consummated in personality, it follows that esthetic excellence is an important goal for democracy.

In a democracy of worth, standards of esthetic excellence are presupposed.

Hence, when loyalty to values is affirmed, the stereotypes of the artist as free of moral restraints (and as a better artist because of the absence of such inhibitions) and of morality as contrary to esthetic enjoyment are repudiated, and the congruence of esthetic excellence with moral goodness is asserted.

The standards appropriate for education are precisely (though not exclusively) those that define esthetic excellence.

There are no objective or universal criteria for esthetic excellence, and there is no way (or need) to resolve differences in opinion about esthetic values.

Truth knows no national boundaries, nor does esthetic excellence.

These are the values that were analyzed in our discussion of esthetic excellence in Chapter 5.

Judgments about manners are made by applying the principles of esthetic excellence to the field of human relationships and personal conduct.

It is criteria such as these that link the values of work with those of esthetic excellence and good manners within the general category of creative effort.

Truth is one kind of value, different in quality from esthetic excellence, justice, or holiness, but like them in being part of an objective structure of worth.

Not exact matches

Thus, the principles of esthetic value here discussed may serve not only as guides in creating and appreciating what are called «art objects» and as criteria of qualitative excellence in curricular matters outside of the arts, but as attributes of the good life and as a source of general educational aims.

Still, they do have a special and distinctive importance, which to some extent justifies the custom of setting them apart as esthetic objects par excellence.