DQ is experienced. Aesthetic and religious DQ are experiences. Analysis is
not experience. Quality is value: IMO 3 experiences to talk about.
> Hi 3WD:
>
> > Religous experience is, "direct experience prior to intellectual
> > abstraction of individual men in their solitude, so far as they
> > apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider
the
> > divine". These experiences, after intellectual abstraction, have been
> > variously described as feelings of , "religious" fear, love, joy,
> > awe,unity, and so forth.
>
> As a matter of curiosity, how do religious experiences as described
> above differ from aesthetic experiences such as seeing the Grand
> Canyon or the statute of David for the first time? In other words, do you
> view aesthetic experiences as DQish also? In fact, are religious and
> aesthetic experiences only different in name?
>
> I think so.
>
> Platt
>
>
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