Aesthetics in the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
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angličtina
Original language name
Aesthetics in the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
Original language description
Alfred North Whitehead published no book or article strictly on aesthetics. Nonetheless, in his philosophical writings he mentions several times that aesthetic experience is the key to his metaphysics. In fundamental places of his philosophical system, moreover, he uses expressions like ''aesthetic experience'', ''aesthetic fact'', ''aesthetic unity'', and ''aesthetic order''. These expressions do not, however, refer to human conscious experience alone, but to all entities of the universe. That has ledsome scholars to the conviction that these terms are used in a purely technical sense and therefore do not refer to the sphere of aesthetics. The author of the current article seeks to demonstrate that these terms do refer to the sphere of aesthetics. The argument set out here consists in three steps. In the first, the author presents Whitehead''s philosophical method of imaginative generalization. In the second step, the author presents the fundamental ontological unit (the actual occas
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
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Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Estetika: časopis Ústavu dějin umění Akademie věd ČR
ISSN
0014-1291
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Volume of the periodical
48
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
157-171
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