15 Consider, for example, his doctrine that»... an actual fact is
a fact of aesthetic experience.
Not exact matches
May I emphasize the
fact that the elements and functions coming from the superconscious, such as
aesthetic, ethical, religious
experiences, intuition, inspiration, states
of mystical conscious - ness, are factual, are real in the pragmatic sense... producing changes both in the inner and the outer world.
The panexperientialist version
of physicalism does justice to this
fact by portraying the mind in each moment (that is, each dominant occasion
of experience) as having both a physical pole, which is constituted by the causal influences from the physical environment, and a mental pole, which entertains ideal possibilities, including logical, ethical, and
aesthetic norms.
The
fact is that our
experience gives us all this together, as being profoundly one in impact upon us; we can not cut up the world
of experience, after the fashion
of an earlier philosophy, and speak as if that which in its
aesthetic quality has subjective appeal must lack any genuine reality in the world itself, simply because it does not lend itself to a particular kind
of analysis by measurement or testing.
In his discussion
of the «Higher Phases
of Experience,» Whitehead says, «An intense experience is an aesthetic fact»
Experience,» Whitehead says, «An intense
experience is an aesthetic fact»
experience is an
aesthetic fact» (PR 426).
The uncanny work is in
fact universally accessible and requires the presence
of the viewer and their unique interpretation to complete the
aesthetic experience.