I think Mando is saying that the aesthetic ex. is possible in the all inclusive sense, but that still means that a necessary condition is required. The aesthetic ex. being subjective (and subjectively socialized) implies that the subjective cannot be universally defined. Didn't your teacher Ducasse say as much?
wc ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 11:42:17 AM Subject: Re: "What is happening during an 'a.e.'?" In a message dated 3/1/10 12:29:33 AM, [email protected] writes: > I suppose I use the word "aesthetics" in the broadest all inclusive > sense, > not just as applied to art, but every way we sense anything. Is'nt that > what this is all about? > > Not for me. You've suggested this before, Mando -- that all sensation is aesthetic. It seems to me this quasi-pantheistic notion obliterates the distinction between aesthetic experience and all sorts of daily, hum-drum experiences like this very typing that I'm doing. Sure, you can probably point at aspects common to all, but I take the point of studying aesthetics to be to identify what is unique to aesthetic experience.
