Sentence examples for aesthetic notion from inspiring English sources

Edmund Burke believed that terror was the central ingredient of the sublime, an aesthetic notion prompted by extremes.

Here he discusses Dewey's aesthetic notion of balance as it applies to ethics.

However, even if beauty were taken to be a substantive aesthetic notion, like elegance, delicacy or daintiness, there would remain some other overarching notion of aesthetic merit or excellence, and we could take that notion as central).

The classical aesthetics dimension pertains to aesthetic notions that presided from antiquity until the 18th century.

The answers he proposes rely on some dubious aesthetic notions.

I had all these aesthetic notions about taking pictures that, above all, looked natural, but within three days of leaving New York, I realised that I should simply keep a visual diary of my travels.

Their defence, whatever its sincerity, of high culture poses a somewhat awkward problem for those on the left who do not wish to be seen, like them, as elitist, Eurocentric, or committed to aesthetic notions which appear to demote by comparison the value of arts and literatures in non-western cultures, or indeed in demotic western traditions either - chiefly folk and working-class cultures.

We need a hierarchical rather than an egalitarian conception of aesthetic notions.

Beauty and ugliness are the primary aesthetic notions, which give sense to the wider class that contemporary aestheticians include as "aesthetic".

Later, in the Critique of Judgment (1790), he would argue for the heuristic value of aesthetic notions such as design and unity.

Only by seeing beauty and ugliness as the preeminent aesthetic notions can we make sense of a unitary category of the aesthetic, which includes the dainty and the dumpy, and which excludes physical, sensory and representational properties of things, as well as their agreeableness.