He must have will for doing that for himself, argues Baumgarten, and also study an elaborated theory of art. The aesthetician is to be qualified for some sensitive talents such as imagination, prediction power, poetic ability, and at the same time has to make them be exercised well. He explains them through some characteristics of felix aestheticus(felicitous aesthetician). Because the people who hold rationalistic views at that time do not think that the beauty can enlarge our cognition and reveal any aspect of an object which can not be uncovered by the logical thinking.īy the way, Baumgarten urges that the subject of cognition has to meet a couple of qualifications in order to experience the beauty. For him, the beauty is the cognition that allows us to recognize the uniqueness of a certain object which is not revealed by the so-called logical thinking, when the sensitive presentations are well expressed through appropriate ways(speech, writing, gesture, etc.) This implies that the alteration of epistemology and truth of the rationalism around the 18th century is unavoidable. The beauty he explains in Aesthetica is the central element of that philosophy. Baumgarten intends to establish a new philosophy through his aesthetics.
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