Exam 9: Aristotle Tragedy

Santayana says, "But we-the minds that ask all questions and judge of the validity of all answers-we are not ourselves independent of this world in which we live. We sprang from it, and our relations in it determine all our instincts and satisfactions."

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According to Santayana, "Beauty as we feel it is something ______________: what it is or what it means can never be said."

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Explain what Thomasson means when she tells us that the artist's sanction plays an ontological role in fixing features of the artwork, and will thus place some indirect constraints on interpretation.

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When Thomasson refers to the artist's sanction playing an ontological role in fixing features of the artwork, she is highlighting the idea that the intentions and decisions of the artist have a significant impact on the nature and identity of the artwork itself. In other words, the artist's choices and intentions shape the essential characteristics of the artwork, such as its meaning, purpose, and form.

This means that the artist's sanction indirectly constrains interpretation because it establishes certain parameters and boundaries within which the artwork can be understood. For example, if an artist creates a painting with the intention of expressing a specific emotion or conveying a particular message, this intention will influence how the artwork is perceived and interpreted by viewers. Similarly, if an artist creates a sculpture with the intention of challenging traditional notions of beauty, this intention will shape the way the artwork is understood and appreciated.

In this way, the artist's sanction acts as a guiding force that shapes the ontological identity of the artwork, influencing how it is perceived and interpreted by audiences. While interpretation is not completely determined by the artist's intentions, they do play a significant role in shaping the overall meaning and significance of the artwork. Therefore, the artist's sanction indirectly constrains interpretation by establishing certain parameters and guiding principles that influence how the artwork is understood.

Bergson says, "Society will therefore be suspicious of all _____________ of character, of mind and even of body, because it is the possible sign of a slumbering activity as well as of an activity with separatist tendencies, that inclines to swerve from the common center round which society gravitates: in short, because it is the sign of an eccentricity."

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Explain what Santayana means when he says, "But we-the minds that ask all questions and judge of the validity of all answers-we are not ourselves independent of this world in which we live. We sprang from it, and our relations in it determine all our instincts and satisfactions." Do you agree with Santayana? Explain your answer.

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Question 5

Thomasson says, "As I shall understand it here, the social dimensions of a work of art is fundamentally fixed by its existence, identity, and persistence conditions; these fix what category of object it is."

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Thomasson tells us that "In cases like these, then, what we have is new ontological kinds of art created, but not new ontological kinds of thing simpliciter [in or by itself] being created. Instead, a familiar kind of entity (a computer game or program) is introduced ..."

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Question 7

Schopenhauer says that "all the arts speak only the naive and childish language of perception, not the abstract and serious language of ontology; their answer is therefore a fleeting image: not permanent and general knowledge."

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Question 8

Explain what Bergson means when he says that "laughter must be a sort of social gesture." Do you agree with Bergson? Explain your answer.

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Question 9

Explain what Thomasson means when she tells us that "Perhaps more interestingly still, fixing what is and is not part of the work also determines normative features: establishing how the work is to-be-displayed, to-be-conserved, and what is and is not to-be-considered relevant for interpretation and evaluation."

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Question 10

Explain what Bergson means when he says, "Society will therefore be suspicious of all inelasticity of character, of mind and even of body, because it is the possible sign of a slumbering activity as well as of an activity with separatist tendencies, that inclines to swerve from the common center round which society gravitates: in short, because it is the sign of an eccentricity."

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Question 11

Aristotle tells us that "the plot is the imitation of the ________; by 'plot,' I here mean the arrangement of the incidents."

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Question 12

Explain what Santayana means when he says, "If our spontaneous thoughts came to run in harmony with the course of nature, if our expectations were then continually fulfilled, the sense of mystery would vanish." Do you agree with Santayana? Explain your answer.

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Question 13

Thomasson says that "the purpose of this paper is to discuss an interesting consequence . . . namely, that there is ______________ to the question of the ontological status of a work of art."

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According to Aristotle, poetry is "a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular."

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According to Aristotle, poetry is "a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular." Do you agree with Aristotle? Explain your answer.

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According to Bergson, "To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comical demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart. Its appeal is to ____________, pure and simple."

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Question 17

Explain what Thomasson means when she says, "It seems that the generic term 'art' or 'work of art' is like 'gift' in this regard: 'work of art' appears not to be category-specifying, since it is applied indifferently to physical individuals, processes, performances, abstract works of music, and so on."

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Question 18

Schopenhauer says, "Every work of art accordingly really aims at showing us life and things as they are in ______, but cannot be directly discerned by every one through the mist of objective and subjective contingencies."

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Question 19

Santayana says that we can "distinguish the material of things from the various forms it may successively assume; we can distinguish, also, the earlier and the later impressions made by the same object; and we can ascertain the coexistence of one impression with another, or with the memory of others. But aesthetic feeling itself has temporality, and this physiology of its causes is not a description of its proper nature."

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Santayana says, "But we-the minds that ask all questions and judge of the validity of all answers-we are not ourselves independent of this world in which we live. We sprang from it, and our relations in it determine all our instincts and satisfactions."

According to Santayana, "Beauty as we feel it is something ______________: what it is or what it means can never be said."

Explain what Thomasson means when she tells us that the artist's sanction plays an ontological role in fixing features of the artwork, and will thus place some indirect constraints on interpretation.

Thomasson says, "As I shall understand it here, the social dimensions of a work of art is fundamentally fixed by its existence, identity, and persistence conditions; these fix what category of object it is."

Thomasson tells us that "In cases like these, then, what we have is new ontological kinds of art created, but not new ontological kinds of thing simpliciter [in or by itself] being created. Instead, a familiar kind of entity (a computer game or program) is introduced ..."

Schopenhauer says that "all the arts speak only the naive and childish language of perception, not the abstract and serious language of ontology; their answer is therefore a fleeting image: not permanent and general knowledge."

Explain what Bergson means when he says that "laughter must be a sort of social gesture." Do you agree with Bergson? Explain your answer.

Aristotle tells us that "the plot is the imitation of the ________; by 'plot,' I here mean the arrangement of the incidents."

Explain what Santayana means when he says, "If our spontaneous thoughts came to run in harmony with the course of nature, if our expectations were then continually fulfilled, the sense of mystery would vanish." Do you agree with Santayana? Explain your answer.

Thomasson says that "the purpose of this paper is to discuss an interesting consequence . . . namely, that there is ______________ to the question of the ontological status of a work of art."

According to Aristotle, poetry is "a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular."

According to Aristotle, poetry is "a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular." Do you agree with Aristotle? Explain your answer.

According to Bergson, "To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comical demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart. Its appeal is to ____________, pure and simple."

Schopenhauer says, "Every work of art accordingly really aims at showing us life and things as they are in ______, but cannot be directly discerned by every one through the mist of objective and subjective contingencies."

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