What does "corrective discipline" mean in the following passage?
Though the pleasure which works of art give us must not be confused with other pleasures that we enjoy, it is related to all of them simply by being our pleasure and not someone else's. All the judgments, aesthetic or moral, that we pass, however objective we try to make them, are in part a rationalization and in part a corrective discipline of our subjective wishes.
So long as a man writes poetry or fiction, his dream of Eden is his own business, but the moment he starts writing literary criticism, honesty demands that he describe it to his readers, so that they may be in the position to judge his judgments.
—From W.H. Auden, "Reading," in The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (1956).
Does discipline here mean training or restraint/control or something else?
Best Answer
Corrective discipline could imply that such action is aimed to correct any behaviour that might cause disruption. These behaviours or violations may be a first-level violation that does not immediately cause disruption, but a violation that need to be corrected to prevent repetition, mitigate escalation. Juxtapose it with the idea of a punitive discipline which is an action aimed to punish a person for a more aggravated/escalated violations