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The Role of Imagination in Philosophical Understanding of Art

Summary/Abstract: This essay focuses on the modern concept of aesthetics formulated in German Enlightenment by A. G. Baumgarten. It stresses Baumgarten’s notion of science of sensitive knowledge and exposes his thesis, namely, that aesthetics, like rhetoric and poetics, should be concieved as an ars inveniendi, or a method of invention of arguments, which enables discovery of truth. Philosophical aesthetics should formulate principles for understanding the complete phenomenal world, everything that is being judged through the senses and feeling, not only art. It should direct sensitive knowledge towards the truth. Therefore, imagination is a cognitive power that enables us to judge art and beauty, it is a leading sensitive capacity for judgments of taste and aesthetic judgments in general.

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