Taste and the Pleasures of the Imagination

Addison, Joseph; Bond, Donald F.

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“…This 'visualist criterion' associated an objective representation of the world with sight, so that the aesthetic event, 'as if it were the thing itself', would link a person with the familiar world (Schneider, 1995, p. 83). Addison (1672Addison ( -1719 stressed the value of the visual sense (and especially landscape painting) as a source of aesthetic pleasure in terms of both direct sense impressions and subsequent recollections (Addison, 1709(Addison, /1963. French Neoclassicism emphasized the importance of the 'three unities' of time, place and action in determining dramatic illusion and the evocative power of a play (Burwick, 1991).…”

Section: Art Objects and The Aesthetic Attitudementioning

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The Evolution of Psychical Distance As an Aesthetic Concept

Cupchik

2002

Culture & Psychology

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The problem of psychical distance refers to the relationship that a person has with an aesthetic object or work. Two basic traditions can be distinguished that have played a meaningful role in describing the underlying processes. The British Empiricist and Enlightenment traditions established the idea that the ‘real’ objective properties of aesthetic works engage viewers and evoke feelings of pleasure. The Romantic tradition placed a greater emphasis on interpretive activity in recipients who ‘willingly suspend disbelief’ and temporarily enter the ‘fictive’ worlds of poetry and drama. Writing in the early 20th century, Edward Bullough produced the idea of ‘psychical distance’, which combines both personal involvement and an awareness that the object or event is a cultural artifact. As the 20th century unfolds, we witness the death of the ‘aesthetic object’ as such and the emergence of a view that accommodates artists, aesthetic artifacts and receivers as open-ended and interacting systems. The complementary role of the realist and constructivist viewpoints is emphasized.

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The Evolution of Psychical Distance As an Aesthetic Concept

Cupchik

2002

Culture & Psychology

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“…On the contrary, a spacious Horison is an Image of Liberty, where the Eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the Immensity of its Views, and to lose it self amidst the Variety of Objects that offer themselves to its Observation. 19 Addison, like many after him, argues that beauty is primarily an object for sight and only secondarily for other sensory modalities, and here he seems to make the same assumption about the sublime. But what is important is that he here suggests that anything that gives us an experience of freedom is enjoyable for that reason alone, whether there is any further cognitive or practical significance to be assigned to that experience.…”

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Monism and Pluralism in the History of Aesthetics

Guyer

2013

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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“…To elaborate, when speaking of pleasure, I subsume under the notion both the positive sentient experiences effected immediately, such as the consumption of tasty food, 33 the feeling of the warmth of the sun's rays on a clear day, 34 or perhaps the touch of a loved person 35 ; as well as those experienced mediately, whose pleasant effects emerge through the processes of apprehension and cognitive judgement, say the making of a charitable donation which resonates with one's values, 36 the process of imagination of future happy experiences, 37 and even the act of sacrifice for a subjectively hypostatised worthy cause 38 . The same applies to my use of the term ‘suffering’, 39 which also includes immediately felt unpleasantness, such as malodorous smells, 40 loud noises, 41 or a physical injury, 42 as well as those experienced mediately, such as due to deprivation that is the denial of pleasure, 43 through the expectation of fearful futures, 44 or through reflection and the consequent sense of guilt and remorse 45 …”

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Resolving the ethical quagmire of the persistent vegetative state

Arandjelović

2023

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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BackgroundA patient is diagnosed with the persistent vegetative state (PVS) when they show no evidence of the awareness of the self or the environment for an extended period of time. The chance of recovery of any mental function or the ability to interact in a meaningful way is low. Though rare, the condition, considering its nature as a state outwith the realm of the conscious, coupled with the trauma experienced by the patient's kin as well as health care staff confronted with painful decisions regarding the patient's care, has attracted a considerable amount of discussion within the bioethics community.AimsAt present, there is a wealth of literature that discusses the relevant neurology, that elucidates the plethora of ethical challenges in understanding and dealing with the condition, and that analyses the real‐world cases which have prominently featured in the mainstream media as a result of emotionally charged, divergent views concerning the provision of care to the patient. However, there is scarcely anything in the published scholarly literature that proposes concrete and practically actionable solutions to the now widely recognized moral conundrums. The present article describes a step in that direction.Materials & MethodsI start from the very foundations, laying out a sentientist approach which serves as the basis for the consequent moral decision‐making, and then proceed to systematically identify and deconstruct the different cases of discord, using the aforementioned foundations as the basis for their resolution.ResultsA major intellectual contribution concerns the fluidity of the duty of care which I argue is demanded by the sentientist focus.DiscussionThe said duty is shown initially to have for its object the patient, which depending on the circumstances, can change to the patient's kin, or the health care staff themselves.ConclusionIn conclusion, the proposed framework represents the first comprehensive proposal regarding the decision‐making processes involved in the deliberation on the provision of life sustaining treatment to a patient in a PVS.

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Taste and the Pleasures of the Imagination

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The Evolution of Psychical Distance As an Aesthetic Concept

The Evolution of Psychical Distance As an Aesthetic Concept

Monism and Pluralism in the History of Aesthetics

Resolving the ethical quagmire of the persistent vegetative state

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