The Cognitive and Ethical Scope of “Confusion” in Baumgarten's Aesthetics

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Autor(a) principal: Nakamura, Tomoe
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/25508
Resumo: This article explores the genealogical and metaphysical grounds for the positive re-evaluation of the concept of “confusion”, which played a vital role in Baumgarten’s foundation of aesthetics as scientia cognitionis sensitivae. First, a reconsideration of Descartes’ and Leibniz’ conceptualisations of “confusion” attempts to identify the place of Baumgarten’s aesthetics within the rationalistic dilemma of evaluating moral and art-related thinking. Secondly, the way in which Baumgarten attempted to resolve the dilemma is explored by a close examination of his concept of “the aesthetic” and of how the concept changed in the course of his writings. The ultimate purpose of this article lies in illuminating an aspect of Baumgarten’s aesthetics, that is, an attempt to synthesize the cognitive and the ethical by means of a re-configuration of the concept of “confusion”.
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title The Cognitive and Ethical Scope of “Confusion” in Baumgarten's Aesthetics
spellingShingle The Cognitive and Ethical Scope of “Confusion” in Baumgarten's Aesthetics
Nakamura, Tomoe
Aesthetics
Sensibility
Confusion
Beauty
Cognition
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 1714-1762
title_short The Cognitive and Ethical Scope of “Confusion” in Baumgarten's Aesthetics
title_full The Cognitive and Ethical Scope of “Confusion” in Baumgarten's Aesthetics
title_fullStr The Cognitive and Ethical Scope of “Confusion” in Baumgarten's Aesthetics
title_full_unstemmed The Cognitive and Ethical Scope of “Confusion” in Baumgarten's Aesthetics
title_sort The Cognitive and Ethical Scope of “Confusion” in Baumgarten's Aesthetics
author Nakamura, Tomoe
author_facet Nakamura, Tomoe
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Nakamura, Tomoe
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Aesthetics
Sensibility
Confusion
Beauty
Cognition
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 1714-1762
topic Aesthetics
Sensibility
Confusion
Beauty
Cognition
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 1714-1762
description This article explores the genealogical and metaphysical grounds for the positive re-evaluation of the concept of “confusion”, which played a vital role in Baumgarten’s foundation of aesthetics as scientia cognitionis sensitivae. First, a reconsideration of Descartes’ and Leibniz’ conceptualisations of “confusion” attempts to identify the place of Baumgarten’s aesthetics within the rationalistic dilemma of evaluating moral and art-related thinking. Secondly, the way in which Baumgarten attempted to resolve the dilemma is explored by a close examination of his concept of “the aesthetic” and of how the concept changed in the course of his writings. The ultimate purpose of this article lies in illuminating an aspect of Baumgarten’s aesthetics, that is, an attempt to synthesize the cognitive and the ethical by means of a re-configuration of the concept of “confusion”.
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