All 15 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience.†
Part 1esthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or taste
- There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety.†
Part 1
- The book states that there's a theoretic component of man's existence which is primarily Western (and this corresponded to Phaedrus' laboratory past) and an esthetic component of man's existence which is seen more strongly in the Orient (and this corresponded to Phaedrus' Korean past) and that these never seem to meet.†
Part 2
- These terms "theoretic" and "esthetic" correspond to what Phaedrus later called classic and romantic modes of reality and probably shaped these terms in his mind more than he ever knew.†
Part 2
- The difference is that the classic reality is primarily theoretic but has its own esthetics too.†
Part 2 *esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
- The romantic reality is primarily esthetic, but has its theory too.†
Part 2esthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or taste
- The theoretic and esthetic split is between components of a single world.†
Part 2
- The philosophy book, which is called The Meeting of East and West, by F. S. C. Northrop, suggests that greater cognizance be made of the "undifferentiated aesthetic continuum" from which the theoretic arises.†
Part 2aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- He read Kant's esthetics with disappointment and then anger.†
Part 2esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
- There's an entire branch of philosophy concerned with the definition of Quality, known as esthetics.†
Part 3
- Now, as the first step of the crystallization process, he saw that when Quality is kept undefined by definition, the entire field called esthetics is wiped out — completely disenfranchised — kaput.†
Part 3
- "This is a true esthetic feeling which all mathematicians know," Poincaré said, "but of which the profane are so ignorant as often to be tempted to smile."†
Part 3esthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or taste
- There's an esthetic to doing things that are unfamiliar and another esthetic to doing things that are familiar.†
Part 3
- There's an esthetic to doing things that are unfamiliar and another esthetic to doing things that are familiar.†
Part 3
- If the University of Chicago was interested in the esthetics of what he was saying rather than the rational content, they were failing their fundamental purpose as a University.†
Part 4esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In Philosophy, "aesthetics" is the study of theories of what is beautiful.