Charles Purse's Aesthetic Ideal

During the ancient times, one worldview that was brought up was how reason was used to understand the cosmos. The ancient times were a breaking point because there was a lot more of thought development that was used instead of just thinking of things randomly and having nothing to support them. When attending the colloquia “School of Rock: Songs that Changed our Lives” it was learned that philosopher, Charles Purse, brought up the “Aesthetic Ideal” which mirrored this worldview of the ancient times. The aesthetic ideal was said to be a felt sense of what is good, what is desirable, and what is wanted. This also mirrored the effect that music had on people. Charles Purse had a great belief in solely using rational thought and saw the ideas of reason and feeling as a guide. Purse did not like to see things being done without reason or having no effect on anything nor anyone. In the perspective of

For example, what this is saying in simpler terms is that when a person is listening to music on the radio in the car and they hear a song that they remember from a past memory it makes their mood change. This is the aesthetic idea shifting because it is your senses adapting to the mood that is portrayed in the mood. An example could possibly be when a person hears their wedding song for the first time in quite a while. This would obviously have a very positive impact on the listener because it reminds them of how they are married to the love of their life and how happy they are to be with that person. However, another example that contradicts this one could be when a person hears a song that they and their ex-significant other were obsessed with. If this were the case, the aesthetic ideal would shift to a more negative change that could be sadness or anger because that person is reminded of a person that they used to be romantically involved with yet, the relationship ended after all they went