Science ttransforms phenomena into knowledge and art transforms knowledge into experience
On 6/27/09 10:04 PM, "Michael Brady" <[email protected]> wrote: On Jun 27, 2009, at 9:33 PM, William Conger wrote: > What is the critical question here? I find all the excerpts quite > plausible. Right now, I just posted them as a starting point to discuss his essay. As I mentioned in a previous post, I may have unconsciously incorporated his ideas about the tendency to abstraction into my formulation that "art moralizes nature and nature demoralizes art." I had mainly forgotten his discussion of empathy, especially the remark that "esthetic enjoyment is objectified self-enjoyment" (p. 367) and also his claim that the "instinct of imitation" is an elementary need and "stands outside of esthetics," which he qualifies in the next sentence by saying the instinct of imitation is not identical to naturalism in art. (363) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected] http://considerthepreposition.blogspot.com/ --
