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Aesthetic emotions

Aesthetic emotions
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Overview

Aesthetic emotions are emotions that are felt during aesthetic activity or appreciation. These emotions may be of the everyday variety (such as fear, wonder, humor or sympathy) or may be specific to aesthetic contexts. Examples of the latter include the sublime, the beautiful, and the kitsch. In each of these respects, the emotion usually constitutes only a part of the overall aesthetic experience, but may play a more or less definitive function for that state.

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  1. (1) It is plain that in those instances of aesthetic appreciation, which we think most valuable, there is included, not merely a bare cognition of what is beautiful in the object, but also some kind of feeling or emotion. It is not sufficient that a man should merely see the beautiful qualities in a picture and know that they are beautiful, in order that we may give his state of mind the highest praise.

    G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica

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  2. The present inquiry[1] has for its subject-matter _Aesthetic_. It is a subject co-extensive with the entire _realm of the beautiful_; more specifically described, its province is that of _Art_, or rather, we should say, of _Fine Art._ For a subject-matter such as this the term…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1

    Close in meaning to Aesthetic emotions; the term itself is not named.

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  3. In a word the aesthetical Idea is a representation of the Imagination associated with a given concept, which is bound up with such a multiplicity of partial representations in its free employment, that for it no expression marking a definite concept can be found; and such a representation, therefore, adds to a concept much ineffable thought, the feeling of which quickens the cognitive faculties, and with language…

    Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement

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