Sentences with phrase «pleasure of aesthetic experience»

Whether they major in the field or take a course or two, students have found that informed visual thinking, no less than the pleasure of aesthetic experience, continues to enrich their lives and their work.

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In modern societies, Weber argued, the biblical God must compete with worldly gods such as aesthetic experience, material success, nationalistic fervor, erotic pleasure, and the many other forms of self - transcendence and this - worldly immortality that call out to our inner demons.

Every person has a need for the pleasures of the mind and the body; these include sexual, intellectual, aesthetic, interpersonal, and spiritual satisfactions, as well as adventure derived from new experiences.

The pervasive, universal values are not moral and are not mere pleasure, they are aesthetic in the sense of the intrinsic harmonies and intensities of experiencing.

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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.»

«In these instances, music is typically the central source of these experiences, and aesthetic qualities were very much involved in the experienced pleasure.

In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who «fears love almost as much as he fears hatred» may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.

But taking the whole relaxation thing up a notch (or 10) are these 9 bathtubs in Queensland, where postcard - perfect views of the Whitsunday Islands and towering rainforests add an aesthetic pleasure to the whole experience.

Van der Stokker argues for the role of pleasure in aesthetic experience, finding alliances between beauty and intellect, playfulness and criticality.

Each reveling in visual detail, eliciting an almost iconoclastic charge, the works in this exhibition continue to expose layers of pleasure and discomfort lurking beneath the surface of aesthetic experience.

The works in this exhibition examine the human experience of pain, pleasure and desire as well as the aesthetic manipulation of consumers in late capitalist societies.

Rødland's work evades the reach of language, according to the gallery, exhibiting an almost iconoclastic charge and exposing layers of pleasures, discomfort and pain beneath aesthetic experience.

«Furthermore, the conquest of each box is added to the pleasure of an enigma; that of the end and of a rebirth; that of a corpse magically revived; that of an aesthetic experience compared to the banality of an object.»