2025/06/16 by Dominic McIver Lopes · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Intellectual Property Law
paper · doi:10.3998/phimp.7083
openalex publication_date 2025/06/16 · openalex created_date 2025/06/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Rasa, or aesthetic emotion, is a central concern of South Asian philosophy. Bhoja, writing in the eleventh century, crafted a unique and intriguing theory of rasa as fundamentally the artistic expression of love. Love, for Bhoja, is a capacity for sensitive attention that grounds self-making and self-awareness. The reason we have to engage with works of art is that they equip us to be who we are.