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Anger is explored as a vital signal indicating dissatisfaction and moral opposition to injustice and relationship disruptions. The book emphasizes its role in highlighting the need for restoring trust and rectifying wrongs, framing anger not just as an emotion, but as a call to action for healing and reconciliation in interpersonal dynamics.

Focusing on the qualitative aspects of aesthetic and moral emotions, this collection of studies delves into conceptual and semantic analyses. It serves as both a thematic and methodological introduction to the systematic interdisciplinary exploration of human emotionality, offering insights into how emotions shape our understanding of aesthetics and morality.

Podtitul: Príbeh a reflexia pustoúľanskej historickej krajiny Kniha približuje históriu a dejinné stopy, ktoré formovali výraz otvorenej krajiny na pokraji Podunajskej nížiny v tesnej blízkosti Čiernej vody, Malého Dunaja a Trnavskej sprašovej tabule. Text netematizuje len geologické dejiny územia alebo historické míľniky, ktoré formovali jeho tvár, ale pokúša sa čitateľovi ukázať, že krajina je vizuálnym archívom, ktorý nám (pri správnom dívaní) sprístupňuje svoju minulosť (halštatské kniežiace mohyly, zabudnutý zaniknutý románsky kostol sv. Jakuba či zaniknuté stredoveké sídla, pôsobivú barokovú Kaplnku Navštívenia Panny Márie a iné drobné sakrálne stavby, povesťou opradenú starú lipu, premyslene a systematicky odvodňované nebezpečné močiare (Csádé), staré poľné i kráľovské cesty, pozoruhodnú úzkokoľajnú železničku, prevádzkovanú animálnym pohonom, staré aleje, lesy či stromoradia). Zároveň popri skúmaní Belových Vedomostí… a iných historických dokumentov či máp upriamuje pozornosť najmä na prítomný okamih, ktorý sa zhmotňuje v pocitoch vyvolaných pohľadom na krajinu.

The authors focus on the reconsideration and re-evaluation of the legacy of the aesthetics of German classical idealism and the demonstration of its viability in the contemporary neuroaesthetic and cognitive scientific discourse. In the book, we shall attempt to focus attention on two basic factors of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. The first is the presentation of the fundamental historical concepts within the aesthetics of German idealism with some crucial concepts, ideas and constructs highlighted which are characteristic of its leading representatives. The second aim is discussions regarding the structure of sensuality and the sources of feelings of pleasure and its relationship to the higher cognitive functions in aesthetic judgements, the structure and nature of the neuronal correlates of aesthetic experience, the individual and socially conditioned creation of an ideal, but also the influence of various social beliefs on the formation of taste in recent cognitive-aesthetical research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Birth of Aesthetics as Gnoseologia Inferior in German Thinking - Receptive-Reflective Concept of I. Kant - Aesthetic Holism of Romanticism - Beauty Viewed through Philosophy of Identity - Dynamic Aesthetics - The Aesthetics of Will - Phenomenology as Aesthetics - Aesthetics as a Science of the Cognition of the Beautiful - Neuroaesthetics

In this book the authors outline the views of a philosopher, a cognitive scientist, a psychologist, and a mathematician, and a theologian on the topic of the relationship between beauty and mathematics, its importance and what it reveals to us. The monograph outlines the dual role of mathematics in relation to beauty. On one hand mathematics refers to an objective, through mathematical formulas expressible side of beauty. On the other hand, it points out that entirely abstract things like mathematical equations can be seen as beautiful, too. This refers to two aspects of beauty. 1. The biological, evolutionary: our brains react to certain aesthetic stimuli in scientifically adequately explainable way. 2. Philosophical spiritual: This shows a connection of beauty with goodness and being. To such a perception we can mature. Handed down wisdom can be mentioned as a hint: You cannot find beauty, if you don't carry it in yourself. Such an analysis can help us understand why we use the word beauty in so many different ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis Let None but the Geometric Enter Here - Mathematics as Seeking Symmetry - Beauty as a Calculation - Philosophical Questions Associated With the Mathematics of Beauty - Biological Sources of Mathematical and Artistic Beauty - The Metaphysical Meaning of Beauty - Learning to Perceive - Fascinated by Ideas

Focusing on the interplay between emotionality and cognitive aspects of aesthetic experience, this study combines philosophical phenomenology with contemporary cognitive science. It explores the foundational elements of emotional research, offering a comprehensive analysis that highlights innovative methodologies and insights into how aesthetic experiences shape emotional understanding.

The book is a second volume of the project, which is focused on a systematic examination of aesthetic experience by the unification of philosophical and cognitive-scientific approaches to beauty and aesthetic experience. This volume is focused on the analysis of selected aspects of aesthetic experience, especially on methodological problems and aspects of philosophical and scientific research, the question of the complementarity and compatibility of methods, and needs to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. Authors of the chapters are considering about diverse areas of perception of beauty, e.g.: pleasure by face perception; the synchronicity by music; the problems of musical chills; the psychosomatic unity of dance; or the problem of development of aesthetic appreciation. Andrej Démuth is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Centre for Cognitive studies at the Trnava University. He studied philosophy and psychology, and is the author of many books and articles on cognition and the relationship between reflected and non-reflected knowledge. His research focuses on modern philosophy, epistemology and cognitive studies.

The book shows the various aspects of understanding cognitive characteristics of aesthetic experience. The authors examine the distinction between ordinary and aesthetic experience and propose with their analysis an introduction to the current cognitive research of aesthetic experience.

The text is structured in chronological and ideological order and presents nine basic types of the classical perception of the problem of knowledge through an analysis of the atomistic theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle’s doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant’s theory, phenomenological-existential, pragmatic, and (post) analytical perceptions. The proposed work aspires to be an introduction (not a complete presentation, neither in the number of types, nor in a full interpretation) and a basis for the reader’s interpretations which is reflected in the structure of the text.