41. Keśava Miśra

Potter, Karl H.

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“…‘In India a philosophical system is one which is pertinent to the ultimate supreme value of mankind, the gaining of liberation […]. What is sought is truth; what truth is is itself a philosophical question’ (Potter, 2015, p. 38). Potter continues to note differing Vaisesika and Nyaya systems with different lists of ‘the “reals,” the stuff of which everything else is made’ (Potter, 2015, p. 43).…”

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“…What is sought is truth; what truth is is itself a philosophical question’ (Potter, 2015, p. 38). Potter continues to note differing Vaisesika and Nyaya systems with different lists of ‘the “reals,” the stuff of which everything else is made’ (Potter, 2015, p. 43). Now, one cannot simply read off a claim to universality from formulations of such ideas, and people often fail to reflect – and get away with not reflecting – on the scope and conditionality of their claims.…”

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Can Aesthetics Be Global?

John¹

2023

Roy. Inst. Philos. Suppl.

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Philosophical aesthetics is to some extent beholden to what I will call personal aesthetics. By personal aesthetics, I mean the phenomena of individual aesthetic sensitivity: how each of us discerns and responds to elements of experience. I take that sensitivity to be finely woven into feeling to some degree at home in the world. There is something extremely local, and in a certain sense unreflective, about personal aesthetics – it is hard to notice one's own, historically specific aesthetic formation. Philosophical aesthetics, meanwhile, aspires to understand aesthetic life in a more reflective and general way. Aesthetic theories in the Western tradition, like most philosophical theories, try to articulate universally relevant and illuminating theoretical concepts and values. But can a theory of this kind acknowledge what is important at the level of personal aesthetics? Can aesthetic theories find fruitful application while also respecting the locality and variability of aesthetic sensitivity? What kinds of theoretical ambition and humility are called for in philosophical aesthetics?

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Section: Philosophy and The Aim Of Universalitymentioning

confidence: 99%