All 11 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Sophie's World
- In his aesthetics he investigated what happens when we are overwhelmed by beauty--in a work of art, for instance.
Chpt 25 *aesthetics = study of beautyunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- When we abandon ourselves to a work of art with no other intention than the aesthetic experience itself, we are brought closer to an experience of 'das Ding an sich.'†
Chpt 25
- He calls them the aesthetic stage, the ethical stage, and the religious stage.†
Chpt 27
- He who lives at the aesthetic stage lives for the moment and grasps every opportunity of enjoyment.†
Chpt 27
- A person who has a reflective approach to reality—or for that matter to his art or the philosophy he or she is engaged in—is living at the aesthetic stage.†
Chpt 27
- It is even possible to have an aesthetic, or 'reflective,' attitude to sorrow and suffering.†
Chpt 27
- A person who lives at the aesthetic stage can easily experience angst, or a sense of dread, and a feeling of emptiness.†
Chpt 27
- The choice that leads a person to leap from an aesthetic approach to an ethical or religious approach must come from within.†
Chpt 27
- Some relapse into the reflective life of their aesthetic stage.†
Chpt 27
- They choose faith in preference to aesthetic pleasure and reason's call of duty.†
Chpt 27
- Were all these people living at the aesthetic stage?†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(aesthetic) related to beauty or good taste -- often referring to one's appreciation of beauty or one's sense of what is beautiful
or:
beautiful or tasteful