Explain and evaluate three elements of Descartes' philosophy of Art. 

His theory in terms of aesthetics can be divided as (1) imagination (2) emotion (3) joy which he draws from his philosophical disposition.

Imagination Descartes advocates ‘free imagination’ for poetic and dramatic productions. In the context of sense-perception, memory, hallucination, dream he discusses the free imagination of a poet. He differentiates poetic imagination from sensual perception. In sense-perception, he says, impressions are received in the brain from common sense which are called images. Imagination, on the other hand receives the common sense and also has the capacity to retain it for sometime. Memory is that which traces the past impressions on imagination. Descartes identifies three causal factors that prompts the imagination to function (a) the physical body (b) animal spirits and (c) soul. His theory on the products of imagination prompted by soul through free will holds a special position in understanding the aesthetic principle formulated by him. He states that the free will that propels the imagination brings out new creations that do not exist in the natural world. Thus, he distinguishes the poetic imagination from the sensory perception.

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