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Dai, Chuang. "Philosophical-aesthetic reflection in China in the century: Wang Guowei and Zong Baihua." Философская мысль, no. 12 (December 2020): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8728.2020.12.34614.
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This article is dedicated to examination of the philosophical-aesthetic reflection in China in the XX century, and the impact of European aesthetics upon the development and transformation of the traditional Chinese aesthetics. The article employs the method of historical and cultural with elements of structural analysis of aesthetic text of the modern Chinese philosophers. In the XX century, a number of Chinese thinkers made attempts of reforming the traditional Chinese aesthetics, complementing it with the viewpoint of European philosophy. The article examines the paramount aesthetic thoughts of the modern Chinese philosophers Wang Guowei and Zong Baihua, and determines the impact of European philosophy upon them. The scientific novelty of this study lies in assessing the impact of the concepts of European aesthetics upon self-reflection and development of Chinese aesthetics in the context of cross-cultural problematic. It is demonstrated that Chinese modern aesthetics in many ways retains its connection with the tradition, which determines its specificity and imparts peculiar semantic symbolism. The conclusion is made that in the XX century, Chinese philosophers sought to complement the existing traditional Chinese reflection on art, which is based mostly on the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism, with what can be referred to as the Western viewpoint, associated with a scientific approach and scientific interpretation. Another vector in the area of humanistic understanding of the phenomenon of art was related to the attempts of interpretation of the European aesthetic thought from through the prism of Chinese traditional philosophy. The philosopher Wang Guowei tried to incorporate the European aesthetics into the scientific problematic of China. The philosopher Zong Baihua wanted to synthesize the Chinese and European aesthetic theories, and create what he believed is the modern Chinese aesthetics.
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Scott, Sarah. "From Genius to Taste." Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy 25, no. 1 (May 23, 2017): 110–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1477285x-12341281.
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I reconstruct the aestheticism of Martin Buber in order to provide a new way of framing his moral philosophy and development as a thinker. The evolution of Buber’s thought does not entail a shift from aesthetics to ethics, but a shift from one aspect of aesthetics to another, namely, from taking genius to be key to social renewal, to taking taste to be key. I draw on Kantian aesthetics to show the connection between Buber’s aesthetic concerns and his moral concerns, and to defend the notion that a certain aesthetic orientation may be just what is needed for moral response.
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Belov, Vladimir N. "Art and culture: Aesthetic ideas of V.E. Sesemann." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 38, no. 2 (2022): 231–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.207.
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The article provides an analysis of the aesthetic views of one of an interesting and original, but still, unfortunately, little studied Russian philosopher, V.E. Sesemann (1884–1963). Aesthetics occupied a leading position in Seseman’s philosophical constructions, while remaining fully embedded in the philosophy of the Russian thinker. Continuing the traditions of transcendental philosophy, Sesemann considers aesthetics as a general theoretical discipline that combines all private and separate studies of the theme of beauty. As in his theory of knowledge, the fundamental element of his aesthetics is the phenomenon of experience, which is the general pre-subject basis of Sesemann’s entire philosophical system. At the same time, however, aesthetic experience, in contrast to experience as such, is experience of a special kind. When identifying the specifics of aesthetic experience, the Russian philosopher attaches special importance to the study of the problem of form, which explains his attention to the work of Russian formalists. Arguing with the formalists and the German art theorist Heinrich Wölfflin and defending the nature of the form as lively and rhythmic, he also sees the positive aspects of these teachings. Sesemann develops his aesthetic ideas in a discussion with contemporary aesthetic theories. It is emphasized that Sesemann addressed the problems of aesthetics throughout his life and expressed his views on a variety of aesthetic problems: from theoretical and methodological to concrete practical and even applied ones. In his aesthetic concept, the Russian philosopher Vasily Emilevich Seseman tries to productively synthesize neo-Kantian and phenomenological approaches.
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Dr. Muhmmad Jawwad. "Influence of Kant’s Aesthetics on the Aesthetics of Collingwood." sjesr 6, no. 2 (June 30, 2023): 148–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.36902/sjesr-vol6-iss2-2023(148-152).
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R. G. Collingwood is supposed to be one of the most important Aesthetes of 20th Century. He was a multi-talented person having original ideas in the fields of Philosophical History (his most famous book is ‘Idea of History’), Aesthetics and Anthropology. He was a practitioner in the field of Archaeology and Music. His second most famous book is ‘Principles of Art.’ He is supposed to be an original philosopher of Art too. His Philosophy of Art has much to do and has much connections with the Aesthetics of Immanuel Kant. Kant was a multi-dimensional genius, presenting before the world very original and outstanding ideas about Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and also Aesthetics. This article is an attempt to understand the influence of Kant’s Aesthetics on the Aesthetics of Collingwood and to present before the readers the great similarities between the Aesthetic ideas of these two philosophers. According to Kant, Aesthetics is the fourth most important function of human mind. Apart from pure reasoning, pragmatic thinking and moral concerns, Aesthetics is that aspect of human mind which deals with beauty. The problem with the Aesthetics of Kant or the Aesthetics of Collingwood is that both of the philosophers present Aesthetics as the divider and in the humble opinion of the writer of this article it is not divider but a connector – connector of moral, pragmatic and pure reason.
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Śliwa, Marta. "Reception of Francis Hutcheson’s Views in Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy of the Power of Judgment." Studia Warmińskie 58 (December 13, 2021): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/sw.6452.
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The following dissertation aims at presenting the dependencies between the aesthetic theory by the Scottish philosopher Francis Hutcheson and the critic philosophy by Immanuel Kant. Those issues seem to be worth discussing in the light of some new research into the British aesthetics: particularly, for its significance in the field of newly created domain that aesthetic has become after Alexander Baumgarten and, mostly, after critical philosophy by Immanuel Kant. The comparison of the views held by Hutcheson and Kant shows the importance of the theory of beauty presented by the Scottish philosopher that results not only from his acknowledging the epistemological significance of an aesthetic experience and accepting that it is conditioned by disinterestedness of perception. What is important is Hutcheson’s place in the evolution of the concept of aesthetics, which took place in the 18th century and which was crowned by Kant and his Critique of the Power of Judgment.
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Pattison, George. "KIERKEGAARD: AESTHETICS AND ‘THE AESTHETIC’." British Journal of Aesthetics 31, no. 2 (1991): 140–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/31.2.140.
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Wilkoszewska, Krystyna. "Aesthetic experience in the nature-culture continuum: The biological dimension of pragmatist aesthetics." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 7, no. 2 (2015): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1501047w.
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In 1930 American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey introduced into aesthetics a relatively new idea of experience. Living in modern time Dewey offered non-modernist way of thinking which especially in the field of aesthetics seems to be more adequate to our time than the modern ideas of aesthetic experience and autonomy of art. After short presentation of Dewey's philosophy of aesthetics I would like to show its inner dimensions that are fully developed today: ecological, evolutionary and transhuman tendencies, experience as interaction, soma and sensuous perspective.
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Siraj, Fuad Mahbub, and Zikraini Alrah. "The Concept of Islamic Aesthetic of Abdul Hadi WM." KALAM 16, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.24042/klm.v16i2.14648.
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This study aims to see how the concept of Islamic aesthetics in the thought of Abdul Hadi WM. Aesthetics is an interesting discourse to study because aesthetics is one of the five branches of philosophy that relate to values that are contained in something or arise from human actions. Although the values contained in aesthetics are very important and are always relevant in human life, the fact is that aesthetics receive less attention in philosophical studies. One reason is the narrow view that aesthetics is only related to art. Abdul Hadi WM sees an important aesthetic in the realm of philosophy and is related to human aesthetic experience. Islamic aesthetics essentially refers to the expression of religious values and can bring awareness to the spiritual realm
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Lelièvre, Samuel. "La philosophie ricœurienne de l’esthétique entre poétique et éthique." Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 7, no. 2 (February 1, 2017): 43–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/errs.2016.374.
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Ricœur’s philosophy never locates itself directly in the field of philosophical aesthetics inasmuch as philosophical aesthetics never arises as a field of major questioning and discursive development for Ricœur’s philosophy or as a field that would guide that philosophy. However, Ricœur maintains an ongoing but complex connection with aesthetics throughout his philosophical work. Here we defend the thesis that there are difficulties relating both to the complexity of Ricœur’s philosophy and to the crisis situation of aesthetics as an autonomous field of philosophical inquiry. A more direct confrontation with philosophical aesthetics, such as that developed by analytic philosophy and critical theory today, is necessary in order to be aware of this connection between Ricœur’s philosophy and aesthetics. It then appears that if Ricœur’s philosophy makes it possible to maintain a certain autonomy of the field of aesthetics inherited from Kant, it is not through developing some unlikely “Ricœurian aesthetic” but thanks to a Ricœurian philosophy of aesthetics essentially determined on three levels: 1) the connection between poetics and aesthetics within a philosophy of imagination, 2) the connection between criticism and hermeneutics with regard the notions of text and distanciation, 3) the connection between ontology and communication that summarizes the two previous steps by combining phenomenological, analytic and critical perspectives. Thus it can be assumed that this autonomy of the field of aesthetics is possible only at a horizon of meaning determined by Ricœur’s philosophical anthropology: at the axiological level, the field of aesthetics differs upstream from the field of poetics and downstream from the field of ethics; at the ontological level, Ricœur’s philosophy of aesthetics concerns a region that is both intermediate between and congruent to those treated by Ricœur’s philosophy of imagination and by Ricœur’s philosophy of action.
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Kormin, Nikolay A. "Aesthetics and Metaphysics: Collisions of Modernity." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 8 (2023): 70–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2023-8-70-73.
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The article deals with the topic of the relationship between aesthetics and metaphysics. It considers how this relation emerges in some areas of modern philosophizing – domestic and foreign. The author pays special attention to how it is read in the actual-sounding meanings of the classical tradition. Laying down the boundaries within transcendental metaphysics (it goes without saying that the boundaries themselves can change, reshape, be revised), Kant in the third “Critique” believes that the principles of the ability of aesthetic judgment are not part of metaphysics, but can only be adjacent to theoretical and practical philosophy. What, in fact, does this proximity to the parts of metaphysics imply, how adequate are the boundaries drawn if we consider them in the totality of ideas and attitudes of critical transcendentalism? Already in the first “Critique” aesthetics, in fact, enters the metaphysical panorama when Kant uses the artistic technique of personification when discussing the question of the world concept of philosophy. The problem of modern understanding of metaphysics seems even more complicated: it is enough to recall the problem of metaphysical a posteriori analyzed in some works, which opens up significant prospects for the development of aesthetics. The author then refers to the position of M. Heidegger, which he defines as a skeptical denial of the aesthetic logos of metaphysics. The analysis of the works of the German philosopher shows that the connection between aesthetics and metaphysics in modern times becomes the subject of a separate problematization. The varieties of its understanding, which can be generalized as an articulation of the paradoxical character of a aesthetic consciousness, were proposed by Russian philosophers as well (V.A. Podoroga, M.K. Mamardashvili).
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Ajíbóyè, Olusegun, Stephen Fọlárànmí, and Nanashaitu Umoru-Ọkẹ. "Orí (Head) as an Expression of Yorùbá Aesthetic Philosophy." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 9, no. 4 (July 1, 2018): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mjss-2018-0115.
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Abstract Aesthetics was never a subject or a separate philosophy in the traditional philosophies of black Africa. This is however not a justification to conclude that it is nonexistent. Indeed, aesthetics is a day to day affair among Africans. There are criteria for aesthetic judgment among African societies which vary from one society to the other. The Yorùbá of Southwestern Nigeria are not different. This study sets out to examine how the Yorùbá make their aesthetic judgments and demonstrate their aesthetic philosophy in decorating their orí, which means head among the Yorùbá. The head receives special aesthetic attention because of its spiritual and biological importance. It is an expression of the practicalities of Yorùbá aesthetic values. Literature and field work has been of paramount aid to this study. The study uses photographs, works of art and visual illustrations to show the various ways the head is adorned and cared for among the Yoruba. It relied on Yoruba art and language as a tool of investigating the concept of ori and aesthetics. Yorùbá aesthetic values are practically demonstrable and deeply located in the Yorùbá societal, moral and ethical idealisms. It concludes that the spiritual importance of orí or its aesthetics has a connection which has been demonstratively established by the Yorùbá as epressed in the images and illustrations used in this paper.
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Wiesing, Lambert. "Phänomenologische und experimentelle Ästhetik." Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 57, no. 2 (2012): 68–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.28937/1000107594.
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Der Artikel versucht drei Thesen zu verteidigen: Erstens die Ansicht, dass man zwar philosophische und empirische Ästhetiken klar unterscheiden und auch gegenüberstellen kann, dass der Begriff der experimentellen Ästhetik aber keineswegs nur für Ästhetiken reserviert werden sollte, welche außerhalb der Philosophie zu finden sind. Denn insbesondere bei phänomenologischen Ästhetiken, so die zweite These, lässt sich in einem bestimmten Sinne auch von einer experimentellen Ästhetik sprechen – nämlich genau dann, wenn mit der Methode der Eidetischen Variation gearbeitet wird, und insofern sich diese Methode als eine Form von mentalem Selbstexperiment verstehen lässt. Da diese Methode aber nun nicht nur innerhalb der phänomenologischen Philosophie verwendet wird, soll drittens die Ansicht verteidigt werden, dass es in der Philosophie insgesamt eine lange Tradition experimenteller Ästhetiken gibt und zum Beispiel die Transzendentale Ästhetik Kants geradezu ein Musterbeispiel einer solchen ist, da sie ihre Erkenntnisansprüche weder induktiv noch deduktiv, sondern mittels des Experiments einer Eidetischen Variation begründet.<br><br>The article tries to defend three theses: First the opinion that in fact philosophical and empirical aesthetics can be clearly distinguished and as well juxtaposed, but the term experimental aesthetics should not only be reserved for aesthetics, which can be found outside of philosophy. Because notably phenomenological aesthetics, so the second thesis, are in a certain way experimental aesthetics – namely if and only if the method of Eidetic Variation is used and insofar this method can be understood as a form of a mental self-experiment. Since this method is not only used in phenomenological philosophy, thirdly the opinion should be defended that there is a long tradition of experimental aesthetics in philosophy taken as a whole and e.g. Kant’s transcendental aesthetic is an epitome of such kind, because it bases its claim for knowledge neither inductively nor deductively, but using the experiment of an Eidetic Variation.
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Erjavec, Aleš. "Art and aesthetics: Three recent perspectives." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 4, no. 2 (2012): 142–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1202142e.
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The author sketches the development of the relationship between art and aesthetics in the recent past. As his starting point, he takes the position that artists established in the sixties in relation to philosophical aesthetics. In his view 1980 represented a historical threshold as concerns transformations both in art and its philosophy. He then discusses three theories of art and aesthetics - Nicolas Bourriaud's "relational aesthetics" from the nineties, Jacques Rancière's aesthetic project from the following decade, and the very recent "theory of contemporary art" developed by Terry Smith. In author's opinion, these three aesthetic or art theories not only disprove the pervasive opinion that contemporary aesthetics understood as philosophy of art is once more separated from contemporary art and the art world, but also manifest their factual import and impact in contemporary discussions on art.
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Grubor, Nebojsa. "Heidegger’s aesthetics. The philosophy of finite human freedom and basic moods and emotions." Filozofija i drustvo 32, no. 3 (2021): 418–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid2103418g.
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The first part of the text poses the question whether for Heidegger?s aesthetically relevant thought it is better to use older terms, such as ?Heidegger?s Doctrine of Art? or ?Heidegger?s Philosophy of Art?, or a more recent term ?Heidegger aesthetics?? Does the term ?Heidegger?s aesthetics? represent an ?oxymoron? contrary to the intentions of Heidegger?s own philosophy, or does it signify a relevant aesthetic conception that has its own place in contemporary philosophical aesthetics? In order to answer these questions, the text considers Heidegger?s understanding of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline and also the problems arising in connection with this designation. It argues that Heidegger?s concept of ?overcoming aesthetics? represents the (self) interpretation of his own philosophy of art developed in the essay The Origin of the Work of Art. The second part of the text follows the thesis that the Heidegger?s aesthetics contains the definitions of art and work of art, based on Heidegger?s analyses of freedom, basic moods, and emotions. This part of text follows a broader thesis, in which Heidegger?s philosophy as a whole can be understood as the phenomenology of freedom. Also, it discusses a special thesis that the concept of strife (Streit) of Earth and world in The Origin of the Work of Art should be understood only on the background of the primordial struggle between concealment and unconcealment in the truth as the unconcealedness of beings. Further, the concept of strife is linked on a deeper level with the determination of finite human freedom and basic human moods. In light of that, Heidegger?s aesthetics is not only the heteronomous aesthetics of the work of art, but also the (relatively) autonomous aesthetics of aesthetic experience articulated with respect to finite human freedom. The conclusion is that Heidegger?s aesthetics of truth understood as the philosophy of freedom, basic moods, and emotions, according to their inner intentions, is closer to the tradition of the aesthetics of sublime than the aesthetics of the beautiful.
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Wilson, Alan T. "The Virtue of Aesthetic Courage." British Journal of Aesthetics 60, no. 4 (August 1, 2020): 455–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaa022.
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Abstract Theorists have recently been exploring the prospects for a virtue-centred approach to aesthetics. Virtue aesthetics encourages a re-focusing of philosophical attention onto the aesthetic character traits of agents, in the same way that virtue ethics and virtue epistemology have encouraged us to focus on moral and intellectual traits. In this paper, I aim to contribute to the development of virtue aesthetics by discussing aesthetic courage, the aesthetic analogue of one of the most widely acknowledged moral virtues. In addition to proposing an account of the nature of this trait, I also argue that aesthetic courage is vital for any sort of aesthetically virtuous life. It is not possible to possess any aesthetic virtue without possessing aesthetic courage. It is important, therefore, for any future development of virtue aesthetics to acknowledge the central importance of aesthetic courage.
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Guss, Aleksandra. "Aesthetics of Law." McGill GLSA Research Series 1, no. 1 (November 22, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/glsars.v1i1.137.
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The aesthetics of law appears as one of the parts of the philosophy of law that focuses on the relationship between law and aesthetical values, in their broadest sense. The aesthetics of law can be closed in its three dimensions: external, internal and the approach defined as "law as a tool of aestheticization”. This division was made from the perspective of the subject of research, which is the law. The third dimension refers to the law as "tool of aestheticization” of everyday life, which indicates the aesthetic function of law, implemented mainly by legal regulation and the legal norms they contain, which are the determinants of what is aesthetic. We can distinguish three basic fields in which the law can affect the aestheticization of everyday life: 1) legal norms that set and promote certain aesthetic standards, 2) legal norms that serve to protect and preserve aesthetic values and 3) the field where law, as an instrument of politics, can be used to fight against certain aesthetic values that are inconsistent with the ideology promoted by the ruling class – the so-called art in the service of state power. The first group of norms is used to make the overall „pretty” but when interpreting such legal regulations, can be concluded that there’s something more than only this - that it’s promoting aesthetic standards and values through legal norms. The policy of many countries focuses on introducing legal regulations aimed at ensuring the aesthetics of the landscape of their cities. The article aims to present the implementation of the third approach to the aesthetics of law in Poland and discussing legal measures and activities undertaken to ensure the aesthetics of the landscape.
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Castro, Sixto J. "Beyond Theological Aesthetics: Aesthetic Theology." Religions 13, no. 4 (April 1, 2022): 311. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13040311.
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In this text, I explore what I have termed “aesthetic theology”. After noting the transference of religious content, function, etc., to art in Modernity, an act that has made art a locus theologicus once again, I analyse one of the main consequences of this phenomenon: art is progressively being considered through what was once purely theological categories, thus giving rise to aesthetic theology. The implication is that some of the solutions that have arisen from theological debate might be useful in the philosophy of art. I also suggest that aesthetic theology can provide theology with a generalized way of reasoning based on aesthetic judgments—judgements formed by postulated consensus instead of forced judgements formed on conceptual grounds. I defend that the formulation of religious judgement has always been of the former sort, such that aesthetic theology may prove itself a useful tool for theologians in developing their thinking about, depiction of, representing, or approaching God.
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Wilson, R. "Aesthetics and its Discontents * The Aesthetic Unconscious." British Journal of Aesthetics 51, no. 1 (April 25, 2010): 103–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayq015.
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Wood, Robert E. "Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Theology." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 67, no. 3 (1993): 355–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq199367318.
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Cova, Florian, Amanda Garcia, and Shen-yi Liao. "Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics." Philosophy Compass 10, no. 12 (December 2015): 927–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12271.
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Vuksanović, Divna. "Aesthetics and media philosophy." Kultura, no. 161 (2018): 389–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/kultura1861389v.
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Van Gerwen, Rob. "Aesthetics as First Philosophy." Aesthetic Investigations 1, no. 1 (July 17, 2015): i—ii. http://dx.doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v1i1.12000.
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Séguy-Duclot, Alain. "Analytic Philosophy and Aesthetics." Critique d’art, no. 9 (April 1, 1997): 18–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.105158.
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Seel, Martin. "The Career of Aesthetics in German Thinking." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44 (March 1999): 399–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100006810.
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In German philosophy of the last 250 years, aesthetics has played a leading part. Any arbitrary list of great names contains mainly authors who either have written classical texts on aesthetics or are strongly influenced by aesthetic reflection, for instance, Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Dilthey, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, and Adorno – the few exceptions being Husserl and Frege. It is not by chance that Frege is one of the founding fathers of modern Anglo-Saxon philosophy, where, generally speaking, aesthetics has had only marginal influence. That is not an insignificant difference. The wildest dreams of one tradition were focused on logic, those of the other on aesthetics.
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Spector, Tami I. "Nanoaesthetics: From the Molecular to the Machine." Representations 117, no. 1 (2012): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2012.117.1.1.
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Rooted in the history of the representation of benzene, this paper examines the evolution of nanoaesthetics from the 1985 discovery of buckminsterfullerene forward, including the aesthetics of molecular machines and scanning probe microscopy (SPM). It highlights buckminsterfullerene's Platonic aesthetics, the aesthetic relationship of nanocars and molecular switches to Boyle's seventeenth-century mechanistic philosophy and twentieth-century machine aesthetics, and the photographic aesthetics of SPM.
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PŁOTKA, WITOLD. "BEYOND ONTOLOGY: ON BLAUSTEIN’S RECONSIDERATION OF INGARDEN’S AESTHETICS." HORIZON / Fenomenologicheskie issledovanija/ STUDIEN ZUR PHÄNOMENOLOGIE / STUDIES IN PHENOMENOLOGY / ÉTUDES PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIQUES 9, no. 2 (2020): 552–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2020-9-2-552-578.
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The article addresses the popular reading of Ingarden that his aesthetic theory is determined by ontology. This reading seems to suggest that, firstly, aesthetics lacks its autonomy, and, secondly, the subject of aesthetic experience is reproductive, and passive. The author focuses on Ingarden’s aesthetics formulated by him in the period of 1925–1944. Moreover, the study presents selected elements of Ingarden’s phenomenology of aesthetic experience, and by doing so, the author aims at showing how Ingarden’s aesthetics was reconsidered by Blaustein, a student of Ingarden, whose theory seems to lead one beyond the scope of ontology. Blaustein, namely, reconsiders Ingarden’s theory of purely intentional objects by interpreting it in a descriptive-psychological, or phenomenological fashion. The article is divided into four parts. In section 1, the author highlights historical interconnections between Ingarden, and Blaustein. Section 2.1. is devoted to Ingarden’s phenomenological approach towards aesthetic experience as a phasic structure. At this basis, in section 2.2., Ingarden’s early theory of intentional objects is to be discussed. Section 3 concerns Blaustein’s contribution to phenomenology of aesthetic experience. Given that Blaustein formulates his theory in discussion with Ingarden, section 3.1. is devoted to Blaustein’s critical assessment of Ingarden’s method, and aesthetics. Next, in section 3.2., the author presents Blaustein’s original theory of presentations, and its use in aesthetics. Finally, in section 4, the author lists similarities, and differences between Blaustein’s and Ingarden’s aesthetic theories.
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Worthington, Glenn. "The Voice of Poetry in Oakeshott's Moral Philosophy." Review of Politics 64, no. 2 (2002): 285–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500038109.
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Despite recent interest in Michael Oakeshott's work, his aesthetics have yet to receive an extended consideration. The paper surveys Oakeshott's writings on the character of art and provides a critical account of how his aesthetics complements his moral philosophy. Through his aesthetics Oakeshott provides his moral philosophy with an idea of authenticity. Societies and individuals that have failed to recognize the poetic dimension in the moral life suffer a corruption of consciousness. Far from the poetic dimension of the moral life being responsible for nihilism and aestheticism as some critics have argued, its recognition saves the moral life from becoming a pursuit of arbitrary preferences.
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Noller, Jörg. "Die Stimmung des Willens." Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 69, no. 4 (August 1, 2021): 529–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2021-0047.
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Abstract This paper reconstructs Friedrich Schiller’s aesthetics from a compatibilist point of view. I shall argue that it is Schiller’s conception of individual self-determination that motivates his aesthetic critique of Kant’s moral philosophy. Schiller conceives of aesthetic self-determination in terms of a compatibilism between reason and nature. As such, Schiller’s aesthetics can be interpreted as an ontological category. His concepts of love, play and the aesthetic state must therefore be understood in terms of volitional structures that describe human freedom in nature, history and society.
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Kiianlinna, Onerva. "Aesthetic Gadgets: Rethinking Universalism in Evolutionary Aesthetics." Philosophies 7, no. 4 (June 21, 2022): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7040071.
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There is a growing appetite for the inclusion of outcomes of empirical research into philosophical aesthetics. At the same time, evolutionary aesthetics remains in the margins with little mutual discussion with the various strands of philosophical aesthetics. This is surprising, because the evolutionary framework has the power to bring these two approaches together. This article demonstrates that the evolutionary approach builds a biocultural bridge between our philosophical and empirical understanding of humans as aesthetic agents who share the preconditions for aesthetic experience, but are not determined by them. Sometimes, philosophers are wary of the evolutionary framework. Does the research program of evolutionary aesthetics presuppose an intrinsic aesthetic instinct that would determine the way we form aesthetic judgments, regardless of the environment with which we interact? I argue that it does not. Imitation and mindreading are considered to be central features of the aesthetic module. Recently, and contrary to the prior view, it has been shown that imitation and mindreading are not likely to be innate instincts but socially learned, yet evolved patterns of behavior. Hence, I offer grounds for the idea that the cognitive aesthetic module(s) is socially learned, too. This outcome questions the need for the traditional differentiation between empirical and philosophical aesthetics.
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Shevchuk, Dmytro, and Kateryna Shevchuk. "Aesthetics and Politics." Symposion 10, no. 2 (2023): 261–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/symposion202310215.
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The paper examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics. In modern humanities, we can find few conceptions of this relationship. These conceptions are not only part of political philosophy or political theory, but also a methodological instrument for analyzing modern politics and aesthetics. They provide an opportunity to understand both the features of contemporary politics and the state of modern aesthetic theory in light of the significant changes that have affected both of these spheres. This article analyzes the main models of the relation between aesthetics and politics. We intend to explore the conception of an aesthetic representation by Frank Ankersmit, the conception of aesthetics as politics by Jacques Rancière, and the conception of the emancipation of society by Gianni Vattimo.
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Rejimon, P. K. "EXPLORING PHILOSOPHY OF ART IN INDIAN APPROACH." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 5, no. 9 (September 30, 2017): 217–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i9.2017.2234.
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Art is one of the cultural activities of man through which he reaches his ideas, values, feelings, aspirations and reactions to life. The generic purpose of art is to provide aesthetic experience and enjoyment to the recipient. Art give outlet to the artist himself to reveal and express his innermost aspirations, feelings, sentiments and also the impressions of life. Aesthetics, the branch of philosophy devoted to conceptual and theoretical enquiry into art. Philosophy of Indian art is concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual work of art interpreted and evaluated. It deals with most of the general principles of aesthetic cognition of the world through any human activity. The human concern for art and beauty had been expressed at the very beginning of philosophy both in the East and West and it continues to the present. In India, philosophy of art is designated as saundaryasastra, which is evolved with an emphasis on inducing special spiritual or philosophical states in the audience or with representing them symbolically. It deals with most of the general principles of aesthetic cognition of the world through any human activity. The human concern for art and beauty had been expressed at the very beginning. The rich tradition of Indian aesthetics can be traced back to the second century BC with Bharata’s Natyasastra, the foundation text on Saundaryasastra. Indian aesthetics is evolved with an emphasis on inducing special spiritual or philosophical states in the audience.
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Saito, Yuriko. "Everyday aesthetics and world-making." Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía 25, no. 3 (January 19, 2021): 35–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/contrastescontrastes.v25i3.11567.
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The project of world-making is carried out not only by professional world-makers, such as designers, architects, and manufacturers. We are all participants in this project through various decisions and judgments we make in our everyday life. Aesthetics has a surprisingly significant role to play in this regard, though not sufficiently recognized by ourselves or aestheticians. This paper first illustrates how our seemingly innocuous and trivial everyday aesthetic considerations have serious consequences which determine the quality of life and the state of the world, for better or worse. This power of the aesthetic should be harnessed to direct our cumulative and collective enterprise toward better world-making. Against objections to introducing a normative dimension to everyday aesthetics, I argue for the necessity of doing so and draw an analogy between everyday aesthetics and art-centered aesthetics which has dominated modern Western aesthetics discourse.
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Mankovskaya, Nadezhda B. "Maurice Maeterlinck’s Philosophy of Art." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 10, no. 1 (March 15, 2018): 76–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik10176-90.
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In the article the key ideas of Maurice Maeterlincks philosophy of art, inspired by the spirit of German idealism, European Romanticism and also mysticism and occultism are considered. On this basis his own original philosophical-aesthetic and artistic views which have laid down in a basis of philosophy of art of symbolism crystallize. The main problems interesting for Maeterlinck in this sphere are metaphysics of art and its philosophical-aesthetic aspects: silence, hidden, destiny, external and internal, madness, mystical ecstasy; essence of artistic image and symbol in art; aesthetic categories of beauty, sublime, tragical, comic; aesthetic ideal; nature of art novelty; relations between aesthetics and ethics. Artisticity, symbolization in art, suggestion, idealization, spirituality as the main attributes of authentic art, stylized poetic generalizations, laconism of a plot - these are the basis of Maeterlincks poetic world and his art-aesthetic principles which have become the art base for symbolist philosophy. Maeterlinck paid special attention to the art-aesthetic aspects of the art of theatre connected with creative credo of the playwright, his skill. He was also deeply engaged into exploration of the art influencing power as well as questions of aesthetic perception, empathies, and art hermeneutics. The major thrust of his philosophical-aesthetic research was that of an expectance of the approaching era of great spirituality and supreme mission of the artist-theurgist in it - in this respect Maeterlinck going his way, had a lot of common with the ideas of Paul Claudel, let alone representatives of Russian theourgistic aesthetics. In his poeticized meditations over the future of artistic culture Maeterlinck quite often acts as a teacher of life and, like described by him bees, collecting honey of hopes.
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Maksimov, M. V. "“Second after Aquinas ...”: Hans Urs von Balthazar on the Philosophical Aesthetics of V.S. Solovyov." Solov’evskie issledovaniya, no. 4 (December 28, 2023): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.17588/2076-9210.2023.4.081-096.
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The analysis of the book by the Swiss philosopher and theologian H.U. von Balthazar “Vladimir Solovyov”, dedicated to the reconstruction and interpretation of the aesthetic teachings of V.S. Solovyov, is presented. The main themes of Balthazar's work are considered, defining its structure in accordance with the author's vision of the main stages of Solovyov's work: “Visionary and textual form”, “Logic and Metaphysics”, “Ethics and Ecclesiology”, “Aesthetics and Apocalypticism”. The author notes the harmony and consistency of Balthazar's concept, the logic of interpretation of the most important provisions of Solovyov's aesthetics, based on the corpus of his writings, as well as on research Russian and foreign literature. The essential characteristics of Balthazar's consideration of the aesthetics of the Russian philosopher are revealed: the disclosure of its ontological, eschatological and theological aspects. The historical and philosophical origins of Solovyov's ideas, parallels and consonances of the conceptual positions of Solovyov's aesthetics and the largest representatives of domestic and foreign philosophy: Plato, Plotinus, Maxim the Confessor, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, E. von Hartmann are determined. Balthazar's position on Solovyov's teaching about Sophia in the context of сhristological and trinitarian theology is presented. The assessment of the comparison of Solovyov's method of unity with the methods of studying Dilthey's “forms of spirit” and Spengler's “forms of culture” is given. The researcher's attention is noted to the problems of Solovyov's creative dialogue with outstanding Russian thinkers F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, K.N. Leontiev. The conclusions about the significance of the philosophical and theological reconstruction of Solovyov's aesthetics, carried out by Balthazar, for foreign and Russian Solovyov studies are formulated.
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Turenko, V. E., and N. V. Yarmolitska. "SPECIFICITY AND FEATURES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AESTHETICS IN THE UKRAINIAN SOVIET PHILOSOPHY IN THE 50-60s OF THE XX CENTURY." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 1 (8) (2021): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2021.1(8).05.
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The article highlights the specificity of research in the field of aesthetics in the context of the development of Soviet philosophy in Ukraine in the 50-60s. XX century. There are three main vectors of scientific work: ideological works, original aesthetic developments and historical and aesthetic research. It is revealed that ideological aesthetic works were based on the concept of "positive aesthetics" by A. Lunacharsky, which contributed to the development of the concept of socialist realism, nationality of art by Ukrainian Soviet thinkers, as well as criticism of Western aesthetics and the approval of "Soviet aesthetics". It is shown that, unlike specifically ideological works, the original aesthetic developments were aimed not at substantiating certain provisions of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, but, as far as possible, creating new concepts and ideas in this branch of philosophical knowledge. It was revealed that in the context of historical and aesthetic research, in contrast to Russian researchers, Ukrainian scientists focused mainly on the development of the national tradition. It is proved that during the period under study, aesthetic problems, along with logic, methodology of science, philosophical problems of natural science, were one of the leading in Soviet Ukraine, thereby being one of its centers throughout the Soviet Union.
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Culbertson, Leon, and Graham McFee. "The Best Way to Locate a Purpose in Sport: Considerations in Aesthetics?" Aesthetic Investigations 1, no. 2 (December 20, 2016): 191–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v1i2.11989.
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The paper highlights the centrality of some concepts from philosophy of sport for philosophical aesthetics. Once Best (BJA, 1974) conclusively answered negatively the fundamental question, ‘Can any sport-form be an artform?’, what further issues remained at the intersection of these parts of philosophy? Recent work revitalizing this interface, especially Mumford’s Watching Sport (2012), contested Best’s fundamental distinction between purposive and aesthetic sports, and insisted that purist viewers are taking an aesthetic interest in sporting events. Here, we defend Best’s conception against considerations Mumford hoped would bring the aesthetics of art and sport closer together, thereby elaborating the aesthetics of sport. But, against Mumford’s resolutely psychological conception of an aim, we follow Best to defend the centrality, for purposive sports, of the means/ends contrast even when taking an aesthetic interest in such sports. We conclude with general speculations about the potential future of the discussions originated here.
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Magdalena, Elsa, Destri Natalia, Andry Pranata, and Nicolhas Jurdy Wijaya. "Filsafat dan Estetika Menurut Arthur Schopenhauer." Clef : Jurnal Musik dan Pendidikan Musik 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.51667/cjmpm.v3i2.1111.
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Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy, which specifically discusses beauty and taste, how they can be formed, and how they can be enjoyed. Beauty is not only about things that can be seen, but also about things that can be heard. Depending on the assessment objectively and subjectively. Music also has aesthetic value. It depends on what theory is used to judge the beauty of the music. This research uses descriptive-qualitative with a literature approach. In this case, it is not only about aesthetics, but also literature on music, and philosophers who discuss aesthetic philosophy.
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Kormin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich. "I. Kant: Aesthetics and metaphysics as a science." Философия и культура, no. 10 (October 2023): 1–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2023.10.43687.
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The purpose of this article is to reveal how aesthetics is embedded in the way of substantiating metaphysics as a science, how its thinking skills are honed during the "rehearsal of the beginning" carried out on the stage of the "Critique of Pure Reason". The aesthetic voice is expressed in a metaphysical discourse involving a dispute about the foundations of knowledge, these foundations themselves are explicated at a fundamental level by the consciousness of changing proportions – these initial aesthetic categories. In this context, it is necessary to reveal the role of aesthetics as a fundamental philosophical science, to raise its originality to theoretical consciousness by reflection. Here, first of all, the question arises about the meaning of the image of aesthetics, which is on the other side of the canvas, about the relationship of aesthetic attitudes and the world concept of philosophy. The main conclusions of the study are the provisions on aesthetics as the metaphysics of a work that produces infinity, expressing the "musical identity of all things" in the aesthetic facet of the world concept of philosophy. Aesthetics is also the feeling of the ideas of the original reality, the spiritual contemplation of superexperienced, supersensible grounds; this metaphysical a posteriori is precisely the primordial freedom of all creation, the freedom of art in contact with nature. Aesthetics is initially immersed in the fabric of metaphysical reflection, which in some cultural traditions is described as creative. And for aesthetics, the question is important, what is the structure of this principle, what is the way of dressing its mental tissue.
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Viazinkin, Aleksei, and Irina Vladimirovna Dvukhzhilova. "Conservative approach towards aesthetics of architecture: Roger Scruton's philosophy." Архитектура и дизайн, no. 2 (February 2019): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2585-7789.2019.2.32686.
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The subject of this research is the conservative approach towards aesthetics of architecture in the philosophy of British thinker, aesthetician and theorist of conservatism Roger Scruton. The cultural situation of postindustrial society – consumerism and commodification of culture – requires new approaches in art history, which are capable of establishing protective trends in the social life. Scruton offers an alternative approach towards art, which represents not so much a return to the traditional values, as revival of cultural situation. Such situation implies the existence of art as a translator of traditional values that strengthen social ties. This article is the first within the Russian scientific literature to examine the aesthetics of Scruton’s architecture in the context of his conservative philosophy, which defines the scientific novelty and outlines new horizons for research in the fields of aesthetics of architecture and philosophy of modern British conservatism. The conclusion is made that Scruton's appeal to the topic of aesthetic experience expands the problematic from pure aesthetics to the unity of ethics, theory of solidarity, and axiology of traditional culture.
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Konanchuk, S. V. "Путь эстетика в искусстве (К юбилею Е.Н. Устюговой)." Studia Culturae, no. 58 (March 21, 2024): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31312/2310-1245-2023-58-30-38.
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<span lang="EN-US">The article is dedicated to E. N. Ustyugova, a famous Russian scientist, specialist in the field of aesthetics and philosophy of culture. The article indicates the main areas of research by E. N. Ustyugova, including: the </span><span lang="EN-US">history of aesthetics, </span><span lang="EN-US">the history of artistic styles, the art and aesthetics of the Russian avant-garde, environmental aesthetics, ethical and aesthetic problems of modern urbanism, the city as a unity of the ecology of nature and the ecology of culture, etc. It is noted that E. N. Ustyugova is a constant organizer and participant of such significant scientific events </span><span lang="EN-US">as the Russian Aesthetic Congress, </span><span lang="EN-US">the scientific conference “Kaganov Readings” (Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University), the international scientific conference “Polylogue and synthesis of arts: history and modernity, theory and practice” (St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov), scientific and practical seminar “Current Aesthetics” (Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University) and many others. The article is based on impressions from the author’s personal acquaintance with Professor E. N. Ustyugova in the period from 2009 to the present.</span>
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Schulenberg, Ulf. "Pragmatist Aesthetics and Nietzsche." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy 59, no. 2 (March 2023): 167–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.59.2.02.
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Abstract: It is difficult to approach a phenomenon as complex as the renaissance of pragmatism without considering the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics. At the same time, however, one ought to note that pragmatist aesthetics has not yet reached its full potential. This is primarily due to the legacy of John Dewey's aesthetics. In pragmatist studies, the problematic consequences of Dewey's idealism in aesthetics have been insufficiently criticized. In order to confront this desideratum, pragmatist aesthetics ought to establish a dialogue with continental aesthetics. This essay advances the argument that pragmatist aesthetics will profit from considering Nietzsche's radical insights and far-reaching suggestions. Concentrating on a comparison between Dewey and Nietzsche, the essay discusses three aspects: the relation between art and life; the question of art's noncognitivism; and the question of aesthetic form and its significance for modern art.
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Schulenberg, Ulf. "Pragmatist Aesthetics and Nietzsche." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy 59, no. 2 (March 2023): 167–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/csp.2023.a906860.
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Abstract: It is difficult to approach a phenomenon as complex as the renaissance of pragmatism without considering the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics. At the same time, however, one ought to note that pragmatist aesthetics has not yet reached its full potential. This is primarily due to the legacy of John Dewey's aesthetics. In pragmatist studies, the problematic consequences of Dewey's idealism in aesthetics have been insufficiently criticized. In order to confront this desideratum, pragmatist aesthetics ought to establish a dialogue with continental aesthetics. This essay advances the argument that pragmatist aesthetics will profit from considering Nietzsche's radical insights and far-reaching suggestions. Concentrating on a comparison between Dewey and Nietzsche, the essay discusses three aspects: the relation between art and life; the question of art's noncognitivism; and the question of aesthetic form and its significance for modern art.
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Zuska, Vlastimil. "Funkce Rozumu v estetickém prožitku." Teorie vědy / Theory of Science 32, no. 1 (August 22, 2010): 227–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.46938/tv.2010.50.
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The study considers Whitehead’s conception of the Reason (articulated especially in his The Function of Reason) as a regulative factor in every aesthetic experience along with Whitehead’s opinion of the basic aesthetic character of every experience. These thoughts are compared with contemporary findings of neuroaesthetics and the Reception aesthetics, in order to demonstrate how stimulating Whitehead’s philosophy is even for the present-day aesthetics.
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Hetrick, Jay. "Deleuze and the Kyoto School II." Asian Studies 11, no. 1 (January 10, 2023): 139–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.2023.11.1.139-180.
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The aim of this paper is to bring Gilles Deleuze and the Kyoto School into an imaginary conversation around the idea of philosophy as a way of life, or what I call ethico-aesthetics. I first show how ethico-aesthetics in the Kyoto School modernizes the traditional notion of geidō, or ways of art, through the language of continental philosophy. Even though the discourse they construct in this respect remains less rigorous than that of the other domains of philosophy with which they engage, the ethico-aesthetic concepts of Nishida Kitarō, Nishitani Keiji, and Ōhashi Ryōsuke provide a starting point from which we might begin to piece together Deleuze’s seemingly random, but persistent and ultimately significant references to East Asian art and philosophy. I argue that Deleuze’s references to the Zen sage and poet-painter—in addition to his uses of the Stoics, Spinoza, and Nietzsche—are necessary to fully understand the immanent goal of his ethico-aesthetics. I conclude by demonstrating that, although there is no evidence that Deleuze was familiar with the Kyoto School, he unwittingly offers more complete and contemporary solutions to the ethico-aesthetic issues presented by some of its key thinkers.
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Ka-Pok-Tam, Andrew. "On the Limitations of Lao Sze Kwang’s “Trichotomy of the Self” in His Interpretation of Kierkegaard." Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 26, no. 1 (August 11, 2021): 523–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2021-0022.
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Abstract In 1959, Lao Sze-Kwang (1927 – 2012), a well-known Chinese Kantian philosopher and author of the New Edition of the History of Chinese Philosophy, published On Existentialist Philosophy introducing existential philosophers to Chinese readers. This paper argues that Lao misinterpreted Kierkegaard’s ultimate philosophical quest of “how to become a Christian” as a question of ‘virtue completion,’ because he failed to recognize and acknowledge Kierkegaard’s distinction between aesthetic, moral and religious passion. By describing and clarifying Lao’s misinterpretation, the paper then argues that Lao’s trichotomy of the self fails to give due credit to the independence of religiousness from morality and aesthetics in Kierkegaard’s thought.
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Perullo, Nicola. "Aesthetics without Objects: Towards a Process-Oriented Aesthetic Perception." Philosophies 7, no. 1 (February 21, 2022): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7010021.
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In this paper, I suggest an aesthetic model that is consistent with anti-foundational scientific knowledge. How has an aesthetics without foundation to be configured? In contrast to the conventional subject/object model, with idealistic and subjective aesthetics, but also with object-oriented assumptions, I suggest that aesthetics has to be characterized as relational aesthetics in terms of process-oriented perception and that this leads to an Aesthetics Without Objects (AWO) approach. The relational nature of processes means that they do not happen inter-, that is, between ontologically delimited and stable entities, but rather they correspond between relations. I will try to show that AWO matches well with the onto-phenomenological-epistemic and relational models proposed by recent theories in different fields of science, especially in the relational interpretation of quantum physics. The field of aesthetics, then, does not indicate perceptual fixed contents—either subjective or objectual properties—rather it emerges from a correspondence occurring in an engaged and situated perceptual movement, an agencing that is prior to any sharp distinction between a perceiver and a perceived. I propose to call haptic this perceptual agencing. In the first section, I describe the reasons according to which the adoption of AWO seems more correct and advisable, both with respect to contemporary scientific models and to the current ecological changes on the planet. In the second section, I portray some characteristics of AWO. In the third section, I argue that AWO calls for haptic perception. In the fourth section, I briefly draw some meta-aesthetics consequences concerning, on the one side, socio-political issues of AWO and, on the other side, the possibility for a theory in an anti-foundational model. I conclude with a proposal: a process-oriented aesthetics approach has to be understood mainly as an art of thinking. This means rethinking and re-evaluating the idea of aesthetics as an artisan thought.
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Xinzhu, Zhao. "The development of Russian aesthetics in the 21st century." OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii" 2023, no. 3-1 (March 1, 2023): 194–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.31166/voprosyistorii202303statyi30.
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The philosophy of being, or the philosophy of existence, is the subject of ontology. The ontological aspect of the aesthetic is the aspect of the existence of this aesthetic in objective reality. In this regard, it is necessary to say about the aesthetics of being itself. The characteristics of being are aesthetic in nature. They are ontological and aesthetic. This is clearly visible when we touch on such categories as rhythm, measure, harmony, proportion, symmetry. These categories indicate, first of all, the balance of being, which is inherently vital and acceptable for a person.
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Kormin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich. "I. Kant: aesthetics and the world concept of philosophy." Философия и культура, no. 9 (September 2023): 15–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2023.9.43689.
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The objective of this study is to identify inimitable examples of the introduction of aesthetic content into the Western European metaphysical tradition, as it was embodied in Kant's understanding of the world concept of philosophy, which has certain aesthetic connotations. In the article, the author analyzes new stages of the movement towards the world concept of philosophy, on which the aesthetic meaning of the basic structures of transcendentalism is explicitly or implicitly realized: the art of schematism as a world concept of epistemology; the world concept of art as an organ of understanding artistic works. In addition, this discussion becomes particularly relevant when they seek to reveal how much the concept of schematism allows us to advance to the explanation of the world concept of philosophy. The work reveals how Kant reproduces the definition of the world concept of philosophy according to a certain model, while posing the problem of the typical embodiment of the idea, the ideal of the philosopher as a model. In this connection, a new complication of aesthetic analysis is being carried out in order to show how the world concept of philosophy was personified and presented as if in the ideal of the philosopher as a model. Therefore, the paradox of the world concept of philosophy lies in the fact that we have to talk about a sample of what does not yet exist. The author reproduces a transcendental language that will reveal the movement of aesthetic thought into the center of the world concept of philosophy, where the traditional artistic technique of personification of the philosopher's ideal as a model is performed, where the contemplation of meaning is transferred into the universality of the concept, into the contours of metaphysics.
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Hales, Steven D. "AUDIOPHILE AESTHETICS." American Philosophical Quarterly 54, no. 2 (April 1, 2017): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/44982136.
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Abstract What little work has been done on high fidelity/audiophile aesthetics uniformly agrees that the aesthetic aim of high fidelity is to achieve maximum transparency—the degree to which the listening experience is qualitatively identical to hearing the live instruments. The present paper argues that due to modern recording techniques, transparency is often impossible and may not be the proper aesthetic goal even in cases of documentary recordings. Instead, audiophilia should be understood as a broadly pluralist artistic endeavor that aims at an idealized generation of a musical event. This positive conception serves to explain away certain debates among audiophiles themselves.
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Bojanović, Kristina. "From aesthetical towards ethical: Myth and metaphor as mode of narrative in Levinas." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 9, no. 2 (2017): 171–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1702171b.
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In this paper, I will try to show that Levinas's ethics contains the aesthetics of mythological narrative that has metaphorical ("as if" meaning) and archetypal dimension, while the relation between ethics and aesthetics will be explained by Levinas's perception of eros. These goals are based on the assumption that myth represents uroboric foundation of Levinas's philosophy by which he succeeded in getting rid of the egology of Western thought, but also from the experience of his own imagination. The myth speaks about universals through various representations, relations, characters, etc. Taking into account that universals are archetypes, and that all archetypes in history of mankind have aesthetic dimension, Levinas's philosophy "offers" this archetypal structure of myth through its operational concepts such as eros, infinity, feminine, trauma, maternity, fecundity etc. I will try to show that Levinasian establishing of ethics as philosophia prima is based on language of metaphors and imagination as material and unknowable foundation of psyche.