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Emotion
As befits the variety of roles that emotion plays in our lives, emotion is a topic of consideration in a variety of areas of philosophy and this is ...
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Aesthetic attitude
It is undeniable that there are aesthetic and non-aesthetic attitudes. But is there such a thing as the aesthetic attitude? What is meant by the aesthetic attitude ...
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Aesthetic concepts
Aesthetic concepts are the concepts associated with the terms that pick out aesthetic properties referred to in descriptions and evaluations of experiences involving artistic and aesthetic objects and ...
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Aesthetic Experience
Aesthetic experience is a specific kind of experience. The question is: What makes it different from other kinds of experiences? The concept of aesthetic experience has been extremely ...
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Aesthetics, African
The study and analysis of African art and aesthetics have been dominated by Western culture. Initially the aesthetic sensitivities of African cultures were characterized as ‘primitive’ and of ...
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Aesthetics and ethics
The contrast between ethical and aesthetic judgments, which has provided a good deal of the subject-matter of aesthetics, stems largely from Immanuel Kant’s idiosyncratic view of morality as ...
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Aesthetics and the philosophy of language
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Aesthetics, Chinese
In China, poetry, painting and calligraphy are traditionally known as the ‘Three Perfections’ of the cultivated scholar. They are construed as ethico-aesthetic acts of self-signification and are evaluated ...
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Aesthetics, Japanese
While the terms ‘aesthetics’ and ‘philosophy’ were only introduced into Japan during the Meiji Period (post 1868), Japanese culture has nevertheless witnessed the proliferation of various arts and ...
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Architecture, aesthetics of
The philosophy of architecture is a branch of philosophical aesthetics concerned with various issues arising from the theory and practice of building design. The oldest writings on architecture ...
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Art and truth
Some things are true within the world of a literary work. It is true, in the world evoked by Madame Bovary, that Emma Roualt married Charles Bovary. In ...
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Art criticism
To criticize a work of art is to make a judgment of its overall merit or demerit and to support that judgment by reference to features it possesses. ...
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Art, understanding of
Art engages the understanding in many ways. Thus, confronted with an allegorical painting such as Van Eyk’s The Marriage of Arnolfini, one might want to understand the ...
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Art, value of
Art has as many kinds of value as there are points of view from which it can be evaluated. Moreover, the benefits of art vary with the role ...
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Art works, ontology of
In trying to decide what kinds of thing art works are, the most natural starting point is the hypothesis that they are physical objects. This is plausible only ...
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Art works, ontology of
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In trying to decide what kinds of thing art works are, a natural starting point is the hypothesis that they are physical objects. This is plausible for certain ...
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Artist’s intention
W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley’s famous paper ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ (1946) began one of the central debates in aesthetics and literary theory of the last half-century. By ...
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Artistic forgery
Forgery in art occurs when something is presented as a work of art with a history it does not actually have. Typically this involves a false claim about ...
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Artistic style
Artistic style is a problematic notion in several ways. Sometimes the term refers to style in general, as it does in ‘Good style requires good diction’. Sometimes it ...
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Artistic style
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Style in art is typically described as how one describes or depicts something, rather than what is described or depicted. Style is thus often identified with ...
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Artistic taste
Taste has been variously understood as (1) the capacity to take pleasure in certain artistic and natural objects, (2) the capacity to identify the constituent elements in such ...
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Conservation, aesthetics of
The term ‘conservation’ is used, in roughly the same sense, across a wide range of applications, including nature, the environment, wildlife, ancient buildings, ruins, monuments, paintings, sculptures, and ...
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Dance, aesthetics of
The aesthetics of dance is the philosophical investigation of the nature of dance, of our interest in it, especially as an art form, and of the variety of ...
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Deconstruction
Although the term is often used interchangeably (and loosely) alongside others like ‘post-structuralism’ and ‘postmodernism’, deconstruction differs from these other movements. Unlike post-structuralism, its sources lie squarely within ...
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Emotion in response to art
The main philosophical questions concerning emotion in response to art are as follows. (1) What kind or type of emotions are had in response to works of art? ...