THE PARTICLE: Interactive kinetic sculpture Concept

Herder finds this definition rather abstract, however, insufficiently descriptive of actual aesthetic experience of beautiful objects, insufficiently articulated to describe concretely which objects of which kinds are connected to which feelings (of which kinds). To understand the meaning of “beauty” so defined, Herder claims, we must trace this definition back to the sense experience upon which it is grounded, and which it purports to describe. Like the classical empiricists, Herder believes that all concepts are both formed from sense experience and ultimately meaningful by reference to the concrete character of such sense experience; this reference to...