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Aesthetics
Aesthetics
What As Aesthetics?
every individual.
both in the east and the west as the fundamental human values.
essence or entity.
the eyes but grasped conceptually by the 'mind alone' ." Again,
it is beauty. The artist is the "seer" who can see the divine
Beauty.
self-completeness."
activity.
all those human activities which are free and spontaneous and
pursued for their own sake alone. They are not continued
senses, sight and hearing, and our mental powers and even our
play.
eye, ear and the mind are at play, and the accompanying
pleasure is aesthetic.
art.
else.
words ."15
According to one, the actor does not imitate but himself becomes
from two gunas, Rajas and Tamas, and therefore, free from the
Sattva.
**Vibhava - Determinants.
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♦Anubhava - consequents
self-sufficiency, the self does not feel the need for any thine*
aesthetic experience.
desires .20
which are still to-day living and valid and even relatively
this.
subsume the old within itself so that the total harmony is not
interrupted.
They have criticised and rejected the negative side, but have
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Radhakrlshnan.
such, but only that aspect of the past which has survived in a
and for the 'heritage of the past' has not prevented Indian
Indian thought has been maintained in the modern age*, "the use
truth, the good and the beauty are the fundamental human values.
relation between the three basic human values the great Indian
poet, Tagore writes, "Whenever we see the good and the true ir
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perfect accord, the beautiful stands revealed." Radhakrishnan
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Abhlnavagupta.
the object.
feeling .24
fact but not from subjective fact. But there may be such a
with his view of art, his concept of the Reality or God from
Peasant must eat and clothe themselves, so must they labour for
aesthetic speculation.
philosophy.
REFERENCES
5. Ib id ., p , 1
7. P la to , Phaedrus, p . 65
8 . I b id ., p . 249
15. I b id ., p . 83