THE SUBJECT AND THE BEGINNING OF AESTHETIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE HISTORY OF CULTURE
Abstract
Aesthetic knowledge appeared in the written culture of the ancient world in the III–I millenniums B. C. It conveyed all the richness of the spiritual sensuality, including smell, taste and touch, along with eyesight and hearing. However, the European rationalistic aesthetic restricted their subject by philosophical theory of the “aesthetic” and “art”, available only to vision and hearing as “theoretical” (Hegel) sense organs. Further development of aesthetics is necessary for overcoming the total alienation of a person from other people, himself, society, nature and God and should cover all the spheres of human life and society. For the subject of this knowledge is essentially universal creative human activity on creation and sensual perception of perfect expressive forms of manifestation of spiritual values in life and art. Refs 19.
Keywords:
aesthetics, aesthetic knowledge, culture, creativity, perfectibility, expressive forms, spiritual value, sense organs
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