There will be times when pets wear clothes for medical purposes instead
of aesthetic ones.
And often time focusing on performance goals instead
of aesthetic ones will help you stay sane (and the aesthetics often follow the performance!)
Not exact matches
The cards are just
one part
of how fashion retailer Frank & Oak built its signature
aesthetic.
Sara and I pointed out that the models in the campaign, each
of whom was supposed to represent a different magazine's
aesthetic, were almost all Caucasian (with the exception
of one Asian woman, I believe.)
Apple is just
one of many makers
of this sort
of stuff, but its impact has been far more than
aesthetic.
As
one of three principals at the helm
of a design and communications consultancy, I often engage in debates about
aesthetic philosophies.
Penfield was
one of the first brands to capture the «New England
aesthetic»
of outdoor garments.
It's such a
one -
of - a-kind piece, and I think it really captures the Splits59
aesthetic.
I mean obviously as a financial matter you shouldn't buy his newsletter and trade penny stocks, but that is the least
of it; the much bigger problem is the
aesthetic one.
Reflecting on Bonhoeffer in the theological journal dialog, Jean Bethke Elshtain addresses the
aesthetic under the rubric
of shame: «
One of the reasons Dietrich Bonhoeffer was so repulsed by Nazism was precisely because
of its aberrant shamelessness.
-- The difference between an
aesthetic experience and a «religious» experience IS
one of the questions raised in this movie, and you haven't even begun to address that question, other than to restate it.
On the
one hand, the comrades take refuge in outdated forms
of communication and esoteric arts and crafts instead
of occupying themselves with the contradiction between the present constitution
of the media and their revolutionary potential; on the other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its
aesthetic.
The principle
of value is
aesthetic, and this is another way
of saying that importance is the measure
of the metaphysical fact that the many become
one and are increased by
one.
Instead, it was often a blend
of types — biblical, doctrinal, apologetic, philosophical, practical,
aesthetic — focused through
one or more topics.
The
one group has moved: inward from an
aesthetic conviction, having a vision
of Eden; the other has moved outward from an ethic, having a vision
of the New Jerusalem.
When humans experience this harmony «they call it
aesthetic experience Aesthetic experience is experience in which many influences vivify instead of neutralize one another and at the same time do not impair or destroy the clarity of consciou
aesthetic experience
Aesthetic experience is experience in which many influences vivify instead of neutralize one another and at the same time do not impair or destroy the clarity of consciou
Aesthetic experience is experience in which many influences vivify instead
of neutralize
one another and at the same time do not impair or destroy the clarity
of consciousness....
Thus relational power is here understood as the ability (1) to be affected, in the sense, especially,
of being open, sensitive, receptive, and empathic; (2) to create oneself out
of what has been experienced by synthesizing that data into an
aesthetic unity; and (3) to influence others by the way in which
one has received and responded to their influence.
«What acts as
one feels as
one» is my doctrine, derived from Leibniz, and the criteria
of value in feelings as such are
aesthetic.
I will state dogmatically: no
one has ever succeeded in making sense out
of the idea
of an
aesthetic value so great that all possible beauty is already in it.
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «
one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms
of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those
of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies
of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods
of research and instruction in whatever parts
of the university we found ourselves.
15 Such an
aesthetic would concentrate, for example, on what John Cobb, following Vernon Lee, calls the «hearer»
of music — that is,
one who reacts to music as it is felt in the mode
of causal efficacy.
Consequently, the «sense
of external reality — that is to say, the sense
of being
one actuality in a world
of actualities — is the gift
of aesthetic significance.
Modern man enjoys erotic,
aesthetic, political, and religious experiences independently
of one another.
Much work needs to be done in clarifying the relationship between creativity on the
one hand and inheritance from the immediate past on the other — I have begun this clarification in section I
of Chapter 2
of my A Whiteheadian
Aesthetic.9 It has been a characteristic
of the Hartshornian group to play down the notion
of creativity at the same time that they augment the importance
of God — God has encroached on the role Whitehead assigned to creativity.
The goal
of therapy within Bateson's view
of mind would be to increase our
aesthetic resonance with the unity
of contexts, transforming our consciousness from a linear, mechanistic view
of reality to
one governed by the aesthetics
of patterns.
The fundamental
aesthetic nature
of systems epistemology is
one of the central ideological legacies
of Gregory Bateson.
Ifthe
aesthetic synthesis is to be
one which is comprehensible and deeply satisfactory, the variety sought must be «the variety
of structures, never
of individuals» (PR 319 / 485).
So when the loss is called an
aesthetic loss or an
aesthetic evil,
one does not discount the significance
of the event.
Very likely, I am
one of those whose orientation is much more
aesthetic than ethical.
Although the attachment
of a feeling
of promise, for good or ill, to a proposition in the context
of an entity's self - creation might suggest that the «logical force»
of propositions is an ethical
one, it could just as easily be thought
of as an
aesthetic one.
Finite beauty powerfully points towards the infinite but unreachable beauty
of God, arousing in us who experience it both joy in possession, and pain in the perceived absence,
of the
one to whom we may be drawn and directed by a particular
aesthetic event.
I vividly remember that on
one occasion in the late 1970s when I was walking with Malcolm in the East Sussex countryside, he started talking about the emergence
of aesthetic nihilism in modern life and literature, a phenomenon that he identified with the Bloomsbury writers, whom (except for Leonard Woolf) he particularly loathed.
One who has earnestness and inner spiritual resources can let his soul be lifted by such beauty as is present, get along without what is absent, and avoid confusing
aesthetic pleasure with the beauty
of holiness.
At least
one variation
of an educational
aesthetic is peculiarly Christian.
If this is so, then the issue becomes not
one of distinguishing those modes
of human thought and experience which are «
aesthetic» in character from those which are not, but
one of evaluating and comparing (insofar as this can be done) different experiences with diverse textures and degrees
of aesthetic intensity.
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.
One of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and
aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being
of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.»
Instead I see the
aesthetic teleological vision as
one in which we may break out
of the confines
of the ethical criteria usually employed in theodicies that have proven to be unsatisfactory for the reasons outlined so clearly in Kushner's fine book.
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.
The «thesis... that all interests should be organized as to function as
one,» so as to be «creative
of integrated experience,» while «sustaining and increasing the number
of different elements or aspects
of the world which enter into consciousness,» seems to adumbrate a vision
of aesthetic organization
of value experience (OI 3, 15).
One sees in Bloom's The Book
of J that discrimination is required, just as it was required in historical analysis, if the Bible is not to lose its theological voice in the name
of secular worship
of an author or an
aesthetic ideal.
In response to this set
of questions we must again call to mind the notions
of physical reality, perception and causation described in the earlier chapters, and the
aesthetic notion
of value sketched in the previous
one.
«actual occasions» are shaped not only by logical reasoning, but includes all aspects
of one's subjective experiences, including the use
of ones imagination,
aesthetic feelings, and other forms
of non-cognitive and unconscious influences.
One of them, a priest at a Shinto shrine, answered that it is the devotion to the creative forces in the universe in the bodily, the cosmic, the ethical, the intellectual, and the
aesthetic realms.
A teenager or young adult might prefer the sleek lines and minimalist, Bauhaus
aesthetic of the Lamy 2000, which, legend has it, was at
one time displayed at the Museum
of Modern Art.
Aesthetic - metaphysically it is honored as a sign
of a deep nature that
one despairs
of the forgiveness
of sins, pretty much as if
one were to regard it as a sign
of a deep nature in a child that it is naughty.
With Aristotle's opposition to Plato standing in the distant background, and deeply influenced by Hegel and Darwin as well as by the bustling energy
of earlier American optimism, all is conceived
of in terms
of a dynamic flow as interacting parts rise into existence and dissolve by their inevitable organic and
aesthetic responsiveness to
one another and to the emerging and progressive whole that they constitute.
The creative class, those obsessed with trends and
aesthetic, the
ones posting Instagram photos
of their grain bowls and standing in line for an Impossible Burgers, weren't engaged in the conversation.
The owners
of Manka's Inverness Lodge (
one of Bon Appétit's Top 10 Food Lover's Hotels) have brought their signature
aesthetic — rustic, spare, elegant — to the old Olema Inn in Marin County.
Slipstream: Providing a distinct
aesthetic that easily translates from day to night, from casual to formal, the restaurant offers a warm, welcoming locale for
one of Washington DC's most upcoming neighborhood.