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David Granger’s “John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living” – Chapter...
… …The more the meaning of an experience is carried through its immediate qualitative dimension, Dewey argues, the more conspicuous the limits of language become. … …this separation of art from the...
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David Granger’s “John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living” – Chapter...
…Moreover, we must recognize that poetic quality “exists in many degrees and forms”. In an effort to drive these points home, Dewey takes the time in Art as Experience to quote verbatim an actual...
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David Granger’s “John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living” – Chapter...
… …To “unweave a rainbow” and treat its components as ontologically superior is, within Dewey’s and Pirsig’s metaphysics to commit *the* philosophical fallacy. … [Martha Nussbaum] Philosophy has often...
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David Granger’s “John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living” – Chapter Six
… …What is more, each of us inherits and is partially constituted by a number of sociocultural scripts authored by those who came before us. As roles to be acted out in everyday life, these at times...
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Scott Stroud’s “John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and...
… …If one can do things that render one’s experience aesthetic in quality, then such activity can be called artful… … …I want to examine how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation… … At various...
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Scott Stroud’s “John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and...
… …a major point of Dewey’s aesthetics (and general philosophy of experience) is to find a way to reflect on experience so as to **improve** future lived experience… … [aesthetic experiences of...
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Scott Stroud’s “John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and...
… …Dewey’s aesthetics resists this move [the separation of aesthetic and moral value], however, noting that such a result is the consequence of the accidental separation of art from life, and not a...
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Scott Stroud’s “John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and...
… In Art as Experience, Dewey explains this last trait of underlying quality thus: “An experience has a unity that gives it its name, **that** meal, **that** storm, **that** rupture of friendship. The...
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Scott Stroud’s “John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and...
…all experience can be experienced as aesthetic. … Dewey advocates the method of the sciences because it seems to him to be the best way to usefully ground philosophy (and reflection in general) **in**...
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Scott Stroud’s “John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and...
…how can we render more of life’s experiences aesthetic or artful? … [Dewey]”Habit does not preclude the use of thought, but it determines the channels in which it operates. Thinking is secreted in the...
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Scott Stroud’s “John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and...
… …I think the heart of the Deweyan challenge strikes deeper. How can we render everyday communication, such as that experienced in mundane conversations with friends, cashiers, and so on, aesthetic?...
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In pursuit of meaning – eudaimonia expanded
Happiness, and all that crap – Clive Hamilton The pleasant life, or life of pleasure, is one motivated by hedonism – the desire to maximise the number of emotional and physical “highs”. This is the...
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Understanding Gregory Bateson Chapter 5 –“Aesthetics, Ecology, and the Path...
Understanding Gregory Bateson: Mind, Beauty, and the Sacred Earth – Noel G. Charlton …Firstly, he [Bateson] was linking the aesthetic, the beautiful, in “nature,” and in human art, with the possibility...
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Sacramentalism in the age of mercenary enchantment, or why there is no shame...
We Have Never Been Disenchanted – Eugene McCarraher … But is that the only way to understand the “different sense” to which Weber alluded so nebulously—that modernity marks the crossing of the Rubicon...
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Dial “e” for social practice
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