PHIL 1361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Greater Adjutant, Proprioception

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1361
• Professor: C.Mag Uidhir

Document Summary

Ronald w. hepburn: aesthetics has neglected nature. Theories of interpretation and expression are only relevant to art. Unlike art, nature surrounds us when we experience it. The appreciator is a part of the object of appreciation; she is within nature (186) Allen carlson: removing the natural object from its environment distorts the object of appreciation. A natural objects surroundings are relevant to its aesthetic appreciation in a way that is dissimilar to artworks. We can"t aesthetically engage with nature in the same way as we do art. We need to appreciate nature as a scene and not like a picture". Painters looking at the california mountains for the picturesque". In doing this, we fail to appreciate nature on its own terms. Scientific cognitivism: the view that scientific knowledge is required for aesthetic assessment of nature. Like a category of art, but instead of art history, it"s biology. Positive aesthetics: when viewed properly, wild nature will always be aesthetically good.