tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119994678985722094.post6484068954994631751..comments2024-01-21T07:04:09.072-08:00Comments on Aesthetics Today: Everyday Aesthetics: quote by KierkegaardTom Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13934376970865685864noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119994678985722094.post-12842194307058190072020-05-10T00:18:33.045-07:002020-05-10T00:18:33.045-07:00Dear Dr. Leddy. I've been reading Dewey's ...Dear Dr. Leddy. I've been reading Dewey's Art as Experience. One interesting sentence I really like is "... we have an experience when the material experienced runs its course to fulfillment" (Dewey, 1934, p.36). He then listed some examples of "an experience". A game is an experience when it is played to its conclusion. The conclusion is the consummation of a moment. During this pandemic, I think that time is slower when I attend to a song, a painting, or a movie. Usually, I experienced the intense moments in working and doing many things. The pressure was there. But now that same pressure is no longer existing. A conversation with a colleague becomes somehow meaningful. I found a photograph of me that should be lost 8 years ago. I have fulfillment in looking at that photo. It is not fulfillment that this photo was about me. I feel fulfilled because each moment (finding the old photo and looking at it) is so intense. But the intensity is not annoying like how I was forced to do something. Regarding your take on Kierkegaard, I agree. I start appreciating the simple things that happen in life. Sometimes, I jokingly tell my friends that I'm very spiritual although I'm not religious.<br /><br />For this point, I think we do not need to be persuaded by a religious authority to see the beauty in something. In Brandom's work Articulating Reasons, he mentions two types of conceptualization, Platonic, and pragmatic approach. The Platonic approach is a top-down solution, having concepts, rules, and principles in understanding. The pragmatic is a bottom-up approach by which we evaluate separately each case. I think the latter resonates with Kierkegaard and Dewey. Sometimes, we are drawn into the scientific knowledge of x, y, z. Science is helpful and practical, but it should be a necessary, not sufficient condition for human life. Obviously, when we are sick, we need doctors and nurses. But somehow when we lose a loved one or become confused by a negative event like COVID-19, science might not help us find the meaning and the beauty in ordinary things and activities. Recently, I had more time and called an old friend. It is an experience different from the text messages or Facebook group conversationsTuan Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086898608830910519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119994678985722094.post-82482388525742307172020-05-10T00:16:05.436-07:002020-05-10T00:16:05.436-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Tuan Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086898608830910519noreply@blogger.com