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Aspects Of The Moral Imagination, Vincent N. Garoffolo May 1950

Aspects Of The Moral Imagination, Vincent N. Garoffolo

Philosophy ETDs

I propose to discuss the imaginative mode of thought in terms of its two most significant aspects: first, as a vital seeking for completeness and, secondly, as providing a sense of deepened dimensions to renditions of human acts.

I shall be concerned with the imaginative mode of thought in minds directed to the expression of moral acts. This will be called "the moral imagination" and is conceived as having two major attributes: First, it dissents from views of moral acts which end in the acceptance of them as completed and reducible. Secondly, it affirms further that there is a flow, …


Ideas And Aesthetics: An Analysis Of The Concept And Presentation Of Evil In Certain Great Novels Of The Nineteenth Century, Kenneth Lash May 1948

Ideas And Aesthetics: An Analysis Of The Concept And Presentation Of Evil In Certain Great Novels Of The Nineteenth Century, Kenneth Lash

English Language and Literature ETDs

As the title of this paper indicates, I assume the existence of an important relationship between the idea and the aesthetic expression of it. I believe that this relationship takes shape as an influence of content upon form. Certainly this is not a new hypothesis, but I have not yet seen a careful examination of it in connection with the novel. Nor is there, so far as I know, any general agreement upon the extent of this influence.

I have chosen to examine content in the light of its concept of evil. This is not a completely arbitrary choice...I found …


The Ugly In Aesthetics, Francis G. Wilson Jan 1942

The Ugly In Aesthetics, Francis G. Wilson

Master's Theses

First we must admit representative ugliness tor purposes of realism, truth, and in connection with the significant the characteristic and such types. Also, we must admit distortion tor purposes of power, emotional strength, logical and organic consistency, and so forth. Possibly the ugly may be admitted to heighten beauty; and certain other forms of the ugly will be admitted artistically so long as comedy and tragedy are called art-forms.

So far, then, as beauty in the wide sense is concerned, the first category or ugliness cannot be anti-thetical to beauty because it is included in, beauty, and is a positive …