Divine Beauty: The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne

241 Pages·2004·2.54 MB·English

by  Daniel A. Dombrowski

DIVINE
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The
AESTH(cid:4)TICS
OF CHARLES
HA(cid:5)TSHORNE
Daniel A. Dombro(cid:6)ski
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DIVINE BEAUTY
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THE VANDERBILT LIBRARY OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY offers
interpretive perspectives on the historical roots of American
philosophy and on present innovative developments in Ameri-
can thought, including studies of values, naturalism, social phi-
losophy, cultural criticism, and applied ethics.
Series Editors
Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., General Editor (Indiana University
Purdue University Indianapolis)
Cornelis de Waal, Associate Editor (Indiana University
Purdue University Indianapolis)
Editorial Advisory Board
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Harvard)
Larry Hickman (Southern Illinois University)
John Lachs (Vanderbilt)
John J. McDermott (Texas A&M)
Joel Porte (Cornell) Hilary Putnam (Harvard)
Ruth Anna Putnam (Wellesley)
Beth J. Singer (Brooklyn College)
John J. Stuhr (Pennsylvania State)
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Divine Beauty
THE AESTHETICS
OF CHARLES HARTSHORNE
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Daniel A. Dombrowski
Vanderbilt University Press
NASHVILLE
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© 2004 Vanderbilt University Press
All rights reserved
First Edition 2004
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dombrowski, Daniel A.
Divine beauty : the aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne /
by Daniel A. Dombrowski.—st ed.
p. cm.—(The Vanderbilt library of American philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–8265–440–5 (alk. paper)
. Hartshorne, Charles, 897–2000—Aesthetics. 2.
Aesthetics, Modern—20th century. I. Title. II. Series.
B945.H354D645 2004
.’85’092—dc22
200307643
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations of Works
Notes 00 by Charles Hartshorne ix
Introduction 
 Historic and Thematic Background 3
2 Beauty as a Mean 27
3 The Aesthetic Attitude 44
4 Birdsong 58
5 Sensation/Feeling 74
6 Panexperientialism 90
7 Beauty Merely in the Eye
of the Beholder? 4
8 The Religious Dimensions
of Aesthetic Experience 29
9 Absolute Beauty? 52
0 Death and Contributionism 69
Notes 95
Bibliography 2
Name Index 227

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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the two Vanderbilt University Press re-
viewers who read two quite different versions of my manu-
script and who made many helpful suggestions for improve-
ment of the work. One of these readers was Donald Viney
and the other remains anonymous. It is an understatement
to say that I have benefited greatly from their efforts.
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Abbreviations of Works
by Charles Hartshorne
AB “The Aesthetics of Birdsong”
AC “The Acceptance of Death”
AD Anselm’s Discovery
AP “An Anglo-American Phenomenology”
BA “Bergson’s Aesthetic Creationism Compared to Whitehead’s”
BH Beyond Humanism
BS Born to Sing
CA Creativity in American Philosophy
CD “God as Composer-Director, Enjoyer, and, in a Sense,
Player of the Cosmic Drama”
CK “Why Psychicalism? Comments on Keeling’s
and Shepherd’s Criticisms”
CS Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method
DL The Darkness and the Light
DR The Divine Relativity
DS “Darwin and Some Philosophers”
EA Existence and Actuality
ER “The Environmental Results of Technology”
GE “Is God’s Existence a State of Affairs?”
HB Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process, and Persons:
The Correspondence, 1922–1945
HL “Charles Hartshorne’s Letters to a Young Philosopher”
ID “In Defense of Wordsworth’s View of Nature”
IO Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers
IS “The Intelligibility of Sensations”
LP The Logic of Perfection
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