#aesthetic judgment

[michaelrdjames]

Review of Ricoeur's "Time and Narrative" Vol 3 : Essay 19 The Spirit of the Times and World History

Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3 : Essay 19 The Spirit of the Times and World History

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Marx’s criticism of Hegel amounts to a criticism of both idealism and the role of abstract reason in world history. Both Marx and Hegel are committed to dialectical logic in which a synthesis “emerges” from the opposition of a thesis and an antithesis. For Marx, however, economic realities such as the concrete ownership and operation of the “means of production”…

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[prayersfromlilacveins]

Like amusement, aesthetic interest is inseparable from judgement.

Roger Scruton, How To Be a Conservative

[prayersfromlilacveins]

We are not, in aesthetic judgment, simply describing some object in the world. We are giving voice to an encounter, a meeting of subject and object, in which the response of the first is every bit as important as the qualities of the second.

Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

[ladylazaru]

There is no science of the beautiful, but only a critique.

Immanuel Kant, from Aesthetic Judgment

[polyanthea]

Les jugements que l'on a portés avant nous sur [un grand écrivain] se sont littéralement "incorporés" à son œuvre, et de telle sorte qu'on ne puisse les en détacher qu'aux dépens de la signification de cette œuvre.

-Bruntière 

[veritusetaequitus]

Let's not forget, the aesthetic realm is the lowest, according to Kierkegaard. It's where I have been dwelling for some time, now. Aesthetic, ethical, religious. I'm working on admittance to the ethical. Fingers crossed that it works. 

Really though, is making judgments based upon the aesthetic value, or lack thereof, or a thing, a person, a situation, a poor idea? Or, is it simply a method which is best used by Kerouac's mad ones, the artists, the creators, the destroyers, those who carry chaos in them, those who birth the dancing stars?

[raffinest]

Italians have a taste for the beautiful, Germans a taste for the sublime. So wrote Kant. This is additional evidence.