tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post383765784984883251..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: An utterly beautiful curve - complex beautyAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-90855192859399657752010-10-01T17:01:48.967-05:002010-10-01T17:01:48.967-05:00That's a good idea. Maybe Prof. Donoghue will...That's a good idea. Maybe Prof. Donoghue will supply me with some useful examples. I hope he makes the teleology explicit!<br /><br />I was looking at the beginning of Nabokov's "Bleak House" lecture, full of "aesthetic bliss" and "shivers up the spine" and his usual stuff, and discovered that there's one word he dances around, just refuses to use, even where it might seem natural. Guess which word?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-65323322864099181292010-10-01T14:45:00.861-05:002010-10-01T14:45:00.861-05:00A thought.
Because beauty and its cognates don...A thought.<br /><br />Because beauty and its cognates don't name a natural kind (i.e., things are neither beautiful nor ugly but thinking makes them so, to invoke shaky Shake), it might be valuable to identify a usage of the term/concept beauty that strikes you as particularly apt, and then make explict the background teleology within which the term/concept functions. <br /><br />"That's beautiful, man," means something different in the mouth of a medical resident who's referring to a surgeon's superior technique than it does in the mouth of a weary backpacker who finds a sweet camping spot near the river, etc.<br /><br />Have a good weekend.<br /><br />Regards,<br />KevinKhttp://interpolations.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com