Dewey's naturalistic aesthetics in 'Art as Experience' grounds aesthetic quality in the consummatory structure of lived experience broadly, not in isolable formal features like Beardsley's triad.
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The idea that an experience has meaning when it builds toward and reaches a satisfying completion or fulfillment, like how a meal satisfies hunger or a story reaches its ending.
Dewey(the philosopher whose ideas are being discussed)
John Dewey was an American philosopher (1859-1952) who believed that philosophy should focus on real human experiences and solving practical problems, rather than abstract theories disconnected from life.
Formal features(what Beardsley thought determined aesthetic quality)
The structural elements of an artwork you can directly observe, like color, shape, composition, or line—as opposed to its meaning or emotional impact.
Naturalistic aesthetics(Dewey's philosophical approach to art)
An approach to understanding beauty and art that grounds it in nature and everyday human experience, rather than treating it as something separate or purely intellectual.
lived experience(as used in phenomenology and philosophy of human nature)
What we actually feel and go through in real life, based on our own direct encounters rather than abstract theory.