Philosophical concept
Aesthetic release from willing
Aesthetic release from willing describes a moment when attention stops relating an object to personal desire and contemplates it for itself; it is temporary and does not permanently abolish suffering.
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Aesthetic release from willing describes a moment when attention stops relating an object to personal desire and contemplates it for itself; it is temporary and does not permanently abolish suffering.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 123 passages across 2 works, including texts still being qualified. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: contemplation esthétique, aesthetic contemplation, pure subject of knowledge