Question

Contrasting Bullough and Dickie, do the aesthetic attitude exist? give me an outline and thesis statement. 1&2 pages

Answer 1

Bullough and Dickie :

In his well known paper " THE MYTH OF THE AESTHETIC ATTITUDE" Dickie objects in turn to each of Bullough and Stonitz's theories . Dickie argues that former thinks of distancing as a apecial kind of action that we can perform we put ourselves " out of gear" with pratical concerns . We can aim to and can successfully distance ourselves from perceived objects . These make distancing sound very much like an action. Dickie swiftly dismisses this view on the grounds that there really is no such special action. What really happens in such cases is that attend differently and attending is a perfectly normal and unmysterious action. One might worry about the details of Dickie agrument here, but since stolnitz's view is the more nuanced and fully developed of the two majority of criticism is focused on his view.

The key to Dickie's argument is that he takes Bullough and Stonitz to understand the aesthic attitude as involving a special kind of action or attention.