 Dewey also argues that there is no reason to think of such conceptual categories as “the practical” or “the intellectual” as some way contradictory to the supposedly pure and non-utilitarian category of “the aesthetic”. It is possible to have aesthetic experiences while engaging with practical and intellectual activities. The aesthetic status of the experiences had in these connections, again, depends solely on the experiences’ internal qualities; even “a mechanic” and “a surgeon” can be “artistically engaged” in Dewey’s sense (AE: 11, 103). The practical and the intellectual should not, thereby, be considered “the enemies of the esthetic”: the real enemies are 