conclusions many caring behaviors associate with aesthetic experience for both patients and nurses and despite two different views, findings of this study showed that these experiences were similar in most cases. the aesthetics of nursing care was defined as what reflects the holistic nature of nursing with an emphasis on spirituality and skill. results of this study are effective in identifica...

This papers aims at showing how Dewey’s legacy can contribute to better understand the correlation between problem of meaning and description aesthetic in framework a specifically enactivist approach model extended mind. My thesis is that characterization this issue has general theoretical import it makes inappropriate speak “aesthetic meanings,” or even “meanings aesthetic.” It instead highlig...

We follow up our special issue on Argentinian philosophy with a selection of essays that continue to expand and pluralize sense the philosophical enterprise. In “Aesthetic Negation Citat...

By assaying the aesthetic qualities of psychoanalytic interpretations and the psychoanalytic course (as one would for other aesthetic enterprises, such as drama, fine art, poetry, sculpture), we can evolve criteria for judging psychoanalytic form and content. These criteria shift, I suggest, to some degree just as artistic styles shift to address the existential needs and interests of the cultu...

After a great deal of initial promise and enthusiasm, evolutionary art seems to have hit a premature and disappointing plateau. This paper proposes a difficult but necessary program for the advancement of evolutionary art. First two significant problems are discussed. The first is the problem of creating aesthetic fitness functions that would allow evolutionary art systems to execute unattended...

Aesthetics, the study of the philosophy of beauty, is not commonly thought of as a factor in the sporting education. It can be surprising therefore to find that sport and physical education provide innumerable opportunities for increasing aesthetic awareness. An aesthetic education can be attempted through the medium of the senses visual, musical, verbal and physical. It is the "physical" aspec...

There is perhaps no more vexing, fraught, and neglected concept in the study of children's literature than aesthetics. No doubt the neglect of a serious, theoretical inquiry into the aesthetics of children's literature stems from our contemporary understandings of the discipline of children's literature itself. The study of children's literature has, historically, been the work of librarians an...