Aesthetic Experience Essay

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Skye Tompkins
Dr. McMahon
HUM 2613
23 September 2015
Become Disinterested When looking at something in a disinterested way it can be labeled as casual. Aesthetic experiences happen everyday, multiple times a day. What humans notice, judge, and define as an aesthetic experience differs, though. Philosophers study and fight to best comprehend and explain the phenomenon of the aesthetic experiences that are constantly happening. Philosopher Hans-George Gadamer does not believe that aesthetics are personal and specific pleasures obtained from art, but that aesthetics is the study of what objectively clues one’s abstract awareness of art. He is convinced that any painting worthy of being called art should instantly have an affect (Davey). Philosopher Marcia Eaton, on the other hand, describes aesthetics as the arousal of feelings and delight found in individuals rather …show more content…

His ideas are to look at objects in sympathetic and disinterested ways. An example of looking at art sympathetically might include ignoring the possible break down of morals associated with Nazi art. The aesthetic attitude must also be disinterested. An example of being disinterested would be looking at painting and choosing to like it or not on its own merit without considering its rarity or artist. He also believes that one must actively attend to a object and focus on it, instead of sitting back and letting the mind wonder, to view it aesthetically (King). “We never see or hear everything in our environment indiscriminately. Rather, we “pay attention” to some things, whereas we apprehend others only dimly or hardly at all (Korsmeyer).” Works

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