Beauty as Feeling

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BEAUTY AS FEELING


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Aestheticians:

No actual objectification of feeling ever occur,

only seems so.

Aesthetic Experience = Hallucination


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Aldrich rejects the notion

that colors are apparentlyat a distance before the

eyes


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Visual and Auditory Sensations


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Theory of Vision


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Visual Feelers


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Theory of Visual and Auditory

Perception

- expandable ego or self

- incorporating parts of the environment into its

own corpus


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Sound and Color

Symbolizes the behavior of the objects or

what can be done with them


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Psychic Distance

and the

Experience of Beauty


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Disembodied Status of Aesthetic

Emotions

Ones own feelings appear as the aestheticquality of a thing of beauty.


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Objectification = Impossible


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Subjectified Emotions

Example: During Embarrassment, we are distressed.

Man bumped by a stranger


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Aestheticians

- Field of consiousness may actually include

not only the native organism of the subject of

experience but other existing bodies as well.


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Real Objectification of Feeling

- simple perception

- response with emotion


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Beloved Material Thing

- a body impelling the native organism of the

lover towards it


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Aesthetic Attitude

- object is not a physical thing it is nowhere

- does not move the native body of the

observer


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BEAUTY

- escape from a going out from the urgencies of

place and time

- escape from existence

- beautiful - a resting place for disembodiedemotional selves


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Santayana - "beauty with pleasure" subjective

sense of beauty late 19th century

take subjective pleasure as a property of theobject


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One must stop acting to behold

beauty.


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Platonic Love


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Tragic Beauty

- you can objectify a painful feeling or emotion

- pleasant feeling converted by objectification

into the aesthetic quality of a previously

objectified painful feeling both feelings

being experienced as qualities of the object.


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Catharsis Theory


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Layer of Aesthetic Quality

Simple Beauty

Tragic Beauty


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Ugliness

There are no negative Aesthetic qualities

Ugliness Aesthetic attitude is difficultto assume ->

and if the Aesthetic attitude is not assumed,

there is no Aesthetic quality.


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Some organic states are correlated

with Aesthetic Experience

- drugs, overt motor tendencies


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Theory of Feelings

contains the promise of a more intelligible

account of the objectivity of feeling

characteristic of Aesthetic experience


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Beauty is not the attribute of an object. It is

inherent in the fundamental nature of

experience. It is the experience of recognizing

that Consciousness and Reality are one.


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A Theory of Feelings was a sequel to On

Instinct, a kind of introduction to the former.)

What is noteworthy is, first, that Heller

provides the reader with a definition offeelings which are "involvements with

ourselves and/or with others

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