Sentences with phrase «immediate of aesthetic experiences»

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Doing a long series of arithmetical calculations or working all day entering data at a computer terminal may result in almost total «an - aesthesia,» while proving a new mathematical theorem or writing a complex computer program may bring about intense involvement and the enjoyment of vivid immediate experience.8 «Aesthetic» experience in the more usual sense of tile term can also y ~ ry fi - om trivial to highly intense, even when it relates to a single object; one is reminded of the cliche situation in which one member of a couple listens in rapture to a concert while the other writhes in boredom.

Yet if we are to judge purely on the basis of immediate aesthetic quality, of «intensity» in a Whiteheadian sense, on what grounds are we to prefer the experience of «passive» contemplation to that which comes from the active exercise of instrumental reason?

The ominous aesthetic and use of charged materials were part of these artists» immediate response to the lived experience of the Second World War.