Just as in the discussion of beauty we say that the tension between the ideals of perfect harmony and strength might war with one another except as they attain synthesis in the ideal, so here the aim at
immediate intensity of feeling and the aim at intensity limitlessly beyond itself can attain synthesis only in an occasion with such concern for the general good that it finds its greatest beauty in its enjoyment of its contribution to that good.
Not exact matches
An occasion exercises its freedom, he says, toward «
intensity of feeling (a) in the
immediate subject and (/ 3) in the relevant future.»
It corresponds to Whitehead's category
of subjective
intensity which states that the subject's «anticipatory
feeling respecting provision for its grade
of intensity» is an element «affecting the
immediate complex
of feeling» (PR 41).
By an actual entity with a strong
intensity of conceptual
feeling, the qualities common to many individual occasions in its
immediate environment can be «fused into one dominating impression» which masks the differences between those occasions.
Although the
immediate past
of an occasion
of experience is
felt or experienced with more
intensity than the remote past, still in a dim way the whole universe and its past is synthesized into each
of the moments
of experience that taken together make up reality.
There he says concerning the subjective aim
of a concrescence: «The subjective aim, whereby there is origination
of conceptual
feeling, is at
intensity of feeling (a) in the
immediate subject, and (ß) in the relevant future» (Cat.
On one hand the small scale
of the spaces and some architectural details give the
immediate impression
of a house, but on another hand the
intensity and darkness
of unexpected spaces such as the Morgue gives the building a mystical
feel.