PHL 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Stuart Mill, Bad Judge
3 Dec 2015
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Perception is selective only pay attention to what we want to see and it affects our attitudes and perceptions. Practical attitude fragments but it isn"t part of the aesthetic attitude. Aesthetic attitude must be disinterested & sympathetic. Disinterested- experience with object is you alone jus for the sake of the object. When we perceive things its for your own self different than practical aesthetic attitude must distance yourself from moral and political focus solely on the object. When you bring other things into the image or object it takes away and results in it not being aesthetic aesthetic attitude must only focus on visuals isolate painting from politics, truth, stand alone with object. Van meegren painted a phony of christ & disciples made it look like a vermeer. Puzzle of forgery: dutton forgeries have little if any value, lessing - being forged is irrelevant to the aesthetic value.
