Sentences with phrase «esthetic worth»

In fact, esthetic worth tends to have an inverse relation to practicality, since forms are ideal in the degree to which they transcend the necessary limitations, confusions, and compromises of ordinary life.

It is this property of ideality that justifies the nonutilitarian view of esthetic worth.

Nevertheless, some suggestions can be offered concerning the criteria that are appropriate for the evaluation of esthetic worth.

Not exact matches

It is here assumed that judgments of worth in the esthetic, moral, and religious fields require a similar presupposition of the givenness of an order of value which is to be discovered and universally recognized and honored.

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.

Esthetic value is not in an independent realm, where its own criteria bear no relation to other measures of worth.

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

Serious esthetic education makes sense only when dedication to qualitative worth is acknowledged.

In contrast, under a philosophy of worth the major purposes of esthetic education are: first, to enable individuals to respond to higher orders of qualitative significance and insight; and, second, to stimulate criticism of popular mediocrity and to discourage uncritical conformity to mass convention.

The principle of worth further presupposes that esthetic experience is an act of discovery.