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Aesthetic Experience in Shaftesbury
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Date Issued
2002-3-29
Journal
In The Aristotelian Society,
Vol.
Supplementary Vol LXXVI
From page
25
To page
54
Abstract
Shaftesbury's theory of aesthetic experience is based on his conception of a natural disposition to apprehend beauty, a real 'form' of things. I examine the implications of the disposition's naturalness. I argue that the disposition is not an extra faculty or a sixth sense, and attempt to situate Shaftesbury's position on this issue between those of Locke and Hutcheson. I argue that the natural disposition is to be perfected in many different ways in order to be exercised in the perception of the different degrees of beauty within Shaftesbury's hierarchy. (edited)
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