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Intellectual Analysis and Æsthetic Appreciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

The purpose of the following article is to suggest certain problems, rather than to offer philosophical solutions of problems. I propose to state certain questions which are sometimes asked and to try to say both (a) why it is important that they should be asked, and (b) why, if we do ask them, we should endeavour to answer them as accurately as we can. A full discussion of what the true answers to the questions are will be beyond the province of this paper, and, if certain answers are suggested in passing, it will only be because it is difficult to make anything which consists of a mere sequence of questions at all interesting or readable.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1926

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1 The case of the bell is not an ideal example, because dinner-bells are not usually very interesting to listen to, in and for themselves. The dinnerbell illustrates better what the æsthetic attitude is not than what it can be. If we wish to think of sounds contemplated relevantly for their own sakes and meanings, we should think rather of the sounds and combinations of sounds of the instruments of an orchestra.

1 The “somehow” is a very difficult and a very important question, into which I cannot enter. But the fact mentioned here and in what immediately follows seems unquestionable.