Sentences with phrase «purely aesthetic sense»

By absorbing various alternative influences, refereeing to an art history momentous phenomenon, and interfering with pop culture, Sterling Ruby has made quite an effort to position his art practice as the communication tool not just in the purely aesthetic sense, but in social and political as well.

HP hasn't dropped the ball when it comes to design, at least not in the purely aesthetic sense.

Not exact matches

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

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?

Although DNA origami originally produced nanoarchitectures of purely aesthetic interest, refinements of the technique have opened the door to a range of exciting applications including molecular cages for the encapsulation of molecules, enzyme immobilization and catalysis, chemical and biological sensing tools, drug delivery mechanisms, and molecular computing devices.