1. A Dialogue Concerning Aesthetics and Apolaustics.
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CHIGNELL, ANDREW and COSTELLOE, TIMOTHY M.
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AESTHETICS , *THEORY of knowledge , *SENSORY perception - Abstract
The article presents a discussion on aesthetics and apolaustics. The term aesthetics, referring both to the knowledge derived from sense perception and the faculty that makes it possible, is attributed to German Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, while Immanuel Kant uses aesthetic judgement, necessary and universal referring to states of pleasure. Apolaustic means devoted to enjoyment. Aesthetics now focuses on the apolaustic experience of value and categories used to name it, including beauty.
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- 2011
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