tive sense. In Marcel ProustÕs novel Remembrance of Things Past, the nostalgic ßavor and fragrance of a madeleine, a delicate pastry, evokes a description of taste and smell, the senses that Òalone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent. . . bear unßinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.Ó Humans often...

Tamil is one of the classical languages with an ancient literary and grammatical tradition. Sangam literature proof nature language. The Ettutthokai Patthuppattu, which appeared during age, are called Pathinenmelkanakku. These depict domestic public lives Tamils. Through literature, it possible to know lifestyle, culture, customs, etc. In sense aesthetics as mixed flowers fragrances. It through...

The text discusses the place of sublime in organization strata arts, phenomenon on periphery and opposition to sublime. result research is that beauty a broader aesthetic sense not only formally indifferently superior other main categories, but together with opposite charming limits dimension within which artistically formed appears an aesthetically narrower meaning.

Is there an objective, biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? Using fMRI technique, we addressed this question by presenting viewers, naïve to art criticism, with images of masterpieces of Classical and Renaissance sculpture. Employing proportion as the independent variable, we produced two sets of stimuli: one composed of images of...

In the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Kant claims that the judgment of taste is based on a subjective principle, but it has universal validity. This subjective principle determines what pleases and what displeases us only through feeling—not through concepts. The a priori character of taste reflects the transcendental principle of the general acceptability, and only such a transcendental pr...

Lesson study involves planning and revising a sequence of lessons collaboratively to encourage learners to construct their own understandings based on a carefully guided sequence of activities. Here we consider the nature of mathematics that makes it significantly different from other forms of knowledge and the ways in which its developing structure involves both building on solid foundations a...

Abstract Our paradigms of aesthetic value condition the philosophical questions we pose and hope to answer about it. Theories are typically individualistic, in sense that they designed capture, which offered as answers, center individual’s engagement with value. Here I offer some considerations suggest such individualism is a mistake sketch communitarian way posing answering nature

The rejuvenation of public spaces is a key policy concern in the UK. Drawing on a wide literature and on qualitative research located in a multi-ethnic area of East London, this paper explores their relationship to well-being and social relations. It demonstrates that ordinary spaces are a significant resource for both individuals and communities. The beneficial properties of public spaces are ...