Φιλοσοφία
Susie Michailidis - 8.3.2011 - 23:15
In the age where use of technology empowers us to control others,we need the experience with something that is not purposive in a quite the same way. When we appreciate the object of beauty,we do not desire to posses it or transform it,to consume it or use it;we leave it free as it is. As something aesthetic,the object is a combination of the affective and the spiritual,as it fits for thought. This preservation of the aesthetic as what is essentially valuable neither to be consumed nor to be left behind makes it valuable as the counter-force to the instrumental,giving it a privileged position within the organic field of human activity in general and especially today. [...]
