BAUMGARTEN’S AESTHETICS AS THE SCIENCE OF SENSITIVE COGNITION Cover Image

A.G. BAUMGARTEN’DA DUYUSAL BİLGİNİN BİLİMİ OLARAK ESTETİK
BAUMGARTEN’S AESTHETICS AS THE SCIENCE OF SENSITIVE COGNITION

Author(s): Nesrin ERTÜRK
Subject(s): Aesthetics, 18th Century
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: A.G.Baumgarten Aesthetics The Science of Sensitive Cognition; Beauty; Inferior Knowledge Faculty; Superior Knowledge Faculty;

Summary/Abstract: A. G. Baumgarten grounds the aesthetics of which he was the founder on widely poetic and rhetoric in his “Aestetica” (1750/58). Nevertheless, what is significant here for him is to validate the individualist right of “sensitive knowledge.” The word “aesthetics” (αíσυŋгηικόç) here is strictly attached to its basic meaning which is “related to sense and perception,” and “sensually understandable.” The aesthetics of Baumgarten is the philosophy of sensual knowledge and perception, and its sensitivity cannot be perceived as the material of outer stimulation and logic; contrarily, it sincerely sees it as a special genre of the knowledge. Hence, the aesthetics is defined as the “science of sensitive knowledge.” With this study, it has been targeted to draw a general outline of Baumgarten’s aesthetics understanding by discussing the basic chapters of “Aestetica.”

  • Issue Year: 4/2016
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 117-128
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish