MOTIVES FOR THE CULTIVATION OF TASTE.
THERE is a pleasure connected with every form of human action, and with almost every healthy act, whether it be physical, intellectual, or moral. In the intensity and value of these pleasures there is great variety. On the one hand, there is the glow of a physical system, rapid and perfect in its involuntary functions, which, if not always itself a distinct and definable enjoyment, is yet the condition and measure of many enjoyments; and, on the other, the commanding pleasure of right action, which, in its imperial nature, suffers no comparison or valuation of itself with other pleasures. But not only has pleasure been made the attendant and additional reward of healthy action, though that action have sole reference to utility or duty, not only do the physical and the mental machinery include within them something of the play of music, but a perception has been given us, chief among whose objects is the high and peculiar enjoyment which it imparts, -the perception of beauty. The fact that this perception is one of the constituents of our nature -a universal and most character. istic element of manhood - would seem to be an adequate reason why we should investigate it, and the principles which control its action, and thus see its relations to character. Without adding to other acquisitions this acquisition also, we cannot fully meet the injunction, Know thyself; nor lay broad the foundations of knowledge in an understanding of that intellect which is at once the recipient and interpreter of all knowledge; nor work into the structure of perfect character that full variety of materials and complement of forces which, in the conception of its Great Architect, were designed to make it the sanctuary at once of strength and beauty. The nature and relations of the perception itself, however, furnish us additional reasons. A most obvious consideration inviting us to this department is the enjoyment which a cultivated taste is able to impart.
In Kant's mind, aesthetics judgment is not morality about practical reason or science about understand. ... In the nineteenth century, the aesthetics expressed as art. The traditional aesthetics was hard to trace by this time. ... To understand this, we need to define beauty. ... Therefore, our beauty even in the twentieth century will not become a beauty in the future. ...
-NATURE OF BEAUTY. ... Beauty is often the door-keeper to those charmed precincts within which are truth and right. ... The several sciences offer for their pursuit their own appropriate rewards; but not unfrequently do we find a most grateful gratuity in the new beauties which they reveal. ... We must for the present rest in the assertion, that, alike in ethics and aesthetics, we are employed with an intuition of the reason, and this, not absolute and unchangeable, but varying with all the new circumstances and relations of each particular case. ... It is this which gives purpose and form...
Charles Baudelaire sums up the idea of beauty and aesthetics for me, he said: All beauties contain, like all possible phenomena, something eternal and something transitory,- -something absolute and something particular. ... Section 1 Definition of Aesthetics Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty and taste. To understand aesthetics better it is useful to consider the influence that philosophy has had on our current understanding of aesthetics. I have chosen Plato, Nietzsche and Ruskin to illustrate how I understand aesthetics. ... He said of painting Paint...
All my first-rated projects for the Science Fairs, which I used to coordinate, were based on this vital theme. ... I was enthralled to be on a team restoring and reinforcing these historical marvels to ensure their mystic beauty lives on to fascinate generations on end. ... I came to really appreciate cultural aesthetics and hope the 'future leaders of tomorrow' also bathe in the magnificence of this cultural extravaganza that we gave a new life. ...
These new aesthetics found expression in the works of such Italian artists as Leonardo da Vinci, S. ... Leonardo's treatises on art and science contain principles of analysis that have profoundly influenced modern thinkers. ... The idea that humankind is a crucial part of nature contributed to the development of science, technology, and human freedom. ... Above all, the Renaissance left us with a world of historic monuments and artistic beauty. ...
In history, Modernism is best thought of as the applying of modern science and society since the sixteenth century. ... The easiest way to understand how postmodernism works is applying it to aesthetics where one person says that a painting is good, and another says the same painting is no good, we are not surprised, because we are familiar with the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ... Both in the science and the physical world but also affects the religious world as well. ... Dowes" article, he explains just how many areas postmodernism affects our lives, from art (aesthetics)...
While the ancient philosophers concentrated more on the idea of the aesthetics (a term not introduced until 1753 by German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, even though the study of the nature of beauty had been pursued for centuries), the contemporary philosophers meant to define art, they both have a lot in common as we are faced nowadays with such things as a pile of bricks being entitled art. ... According to Plato and classical aesthetics, what we see on canvas is a second interpretation of an interpretation. ... Other philosophers believed that art was the opposite of science. ....
Dorian's avid fixation on pleasure through his own beauty is the root of his future evil and destruction. The relationship between aesthetics and ethics is a delicate yet simple balance. ... Harry's fixation isn't on his beauty like Dorian, rather the theory of Hedonism. ... Harry begins to see Dorian not only as an apprentice but rather a science experiment for his own intellectual stimulation. ... Dorian's portrait is a constant reminder of his immaculate beauty. ...
In a way PETTY BOY CROSSOVER Term Paper for "Aesthetics Of Techno-Culture in American Literature and Film- Pretty Boy feels flattered by "their- interest in him, but on the other hand he is very sceptical about the whole development. ... It would be naive to PETTY BOY CROSSOVER Term Paper for "Aesthetics Of Techno-Culture in American Literature and Film- state that this development has just come up recently and that it is a phenomenon of our modern society, but it is obvious that TV programmes, magazines and all the other influential institutions who purport the public opinion have...
