In order to understand Schopenhauer's reasoning for this rather stunning view of the cognitive significance of music, one needs to pay attention to the role of feeling in Schopenhauer's epistemology, and especially to the feeling of embodiment that a subject can experience by attending to ordinary acts of volition.
Style is the embodiment of the ineffable moment when an idea is born it's both the result of the light bulb going on and the representation of the experience of feeling it go on.
Bosanquet writes that when we "imaginatively contemplate" an art object, we are "able to live in it as an embodiment of our feeling" (Three Lectures, p. 30); there is no ultimate distinction between art and the feelings it evokes in us.
Because she was the embodiment of that feeling, of that whole culture.
But that deliberate attempt to make instrumental music an embodiment of instantaneous feeling and passion instead of the intellectual rigour and contrapuntal complexity of an earlier era – above all, that of Bach's father, Johann Sebastian, and in London the imposing legacy of Handel – was much more sophisticated than posterity would give him credit for.
We do not know the fate of this unsung hero just yet, but for a brief moment on that fateful Wednesday evening in Brantford, this unnamed driver became the embodiment of our feelings about the pace of legalizing weed in our country.
Khaled's signature dance beats will have you groovin' all season long, and leave you feeling like the human embodiment of a hip poolside party where no one drowns.
Greve et al. (2009), borrowing the proposition of Kluckhohn (1951), maintain that culture consists in patterned ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting, acquired and transmitted mainly by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiment in artifacts.
It lays a basis for embodiment in feeling".
One well-known anthropological definition runs as follows: " Culture consists in patterned ways of thinking, feeling and reacting, acquired and transmitted mainly by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiments in artefacts: the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values" [ 21].
