practicism

If it is wished that this should be understood in the sense that art is not to be confounded with sensual pleasure, that is, in fact, with utilitarian practicism, nor with moralism, then our Aesthetic also must be permitted to adorn itself with the title of _Aesthetic of pure beauty_.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

The task of instructing, which is imposed upon it, precisely because it is an end which is sought after and advised, is no longer merely a theoretical fact, but a theoretical fact become the material for practical action; it is not, therefore, intellectualism, but pedagogism and practicism.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

Empiria becomes empiricism, the heuristic comparison of the aesthetic activity with the practical and logical, becomes a conclusion, and therefore practicism and intellectualism.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

In this way, each becomes error, and the truths contained in empiricism, in practicism, in intellectualism, in agnostic and in mystical Aesthetic, become, respectively, falsity, and these tendencies of speculation are indicated with names of a definitely depreciative colouring.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

_practicism_, because that is precisely what constitutes its essential character.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909