Don't we then get into classifying different types of experience and discussing why they are different, and isn't that another way of asking the question:what is an aesthetic experience ?
-----Original Message----- From: saul ostrow <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Dec 21, 2013 4:41 pm Subject: Re: Aesthetic experience Might the sequence of events for the arts and certain natural phenomena be "aesthetic experience" this being a specific type of experience relative to a given stimuli, reaction, response,relfection, judgement. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Saul wrote:Would it help if we differentiated between reaction and response Also one may want to differentiate between an experience and response
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in that experiences do not necessarily require a response Seemingly there is a desire to confuse the thing with ones impression/ experience of it A fetishist experiences and responds differently to shoe then does a person who merely uses it for utilitarian reasons Also we seem to be confusing response and judgment We have: reaction, and response which is not judgement,and experience which doesn't require response. Also Tom wrote: I use 'response' when I have in mind 'what I say or do in specific reply'. So, for me, it comes after my "reacting", the feeling I have
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I experience. always react, but I often don't respond. a reaction/experience/feeling is prior to judgment You agree with each other as to the sequence of events-experience,reaction,response,judgement. Experience in
"aesthetic
experience" is not in the same place in the sequence as experience.If all experiences are not aesthetic,then an aesthetic experience is either
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reaction or a response or a judgement. One of these experience uses should change If all experiences are aesthetic then something is very strange. -----Original Message----- From: Cheerskep <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Dec 21, 2013 3:42 pm Subject: Re: Aesthetic experience I tend to use 'response' when I have in mind 'what I say or do in specific reply'. So, for me, it comes after my "reacting", the feeling I have
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I experience. When people try to solicit donations from me, or a complimentary blurb on their manuscript so they can sell it, I always react, but I often don't respond. For me, a reaction/experience/feeling is prior to judgment. "Judgment" tends to come with the attempt to "decide" something. For example,
when
I was a publisher and someone sent me a manscript in hopes I'd publish it, my reaction to the script was one thing, but my judgment about whether or not it would succeed in the marketplace was another. It involved factors exterior to the manuscript itself. All of my prattling here about word usage is personal to me. I can't claim the distinctions I put forth are other than idiosyncratic. They're not universal, fact-of-the-matter pronouncements about how others should choose to use the terms. No "word" has a mind-independent fact-of-the-matter "meaning".
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