The Pleasure Instinct by Gene Wallenstein

The Pleasure Instinct by Gene Wallenstein

Author:Gene Wallenstein
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2012-02-04T01:53:18+00:00


Part Three

The Pleasure Instinct and the Modern Experience

Chapter 9

Pleasure from Proportion and Symmetry

Our inner faculties are adapted in advance to the features of the world in which we dwell. . . . Our various ways of feeling and thinking have grown to be what they are because of their utility in shaping our reactions on the outer world.

—William James

There must be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.



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