L’esthétique brentanienne comme science normative
L’esthétique brentanienne comme science normative
Author(s): Jean-Claude GensSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Societatea Română de Fenomenologie
Summary/Abstract: According to Brentano, logic, ethics and aesthetics are practical normative sciences, and they correspond to the three classes of psychic phenomena. But if a judgment or a love may be correct or incorrect, it seems more difficult to speak of a correct representation as this class of phenomena ignores a polarity such as right / wrong or good / bad. Brentano speaks nevertheless from the aesthetical “value” of representations. Aesthetics could in this way be considered as part of a general theory of value; but compared to ethics the specificity of this science tends to vanish. Another way to consider the question is to remember that the distinction of the three classes of psychic phenomena is only formal. It means that one has to question more precisely the very nature of representation and especially its relation to feeling.
Journal: Studia Phaenomenologica
- Issue Year: IV/2004
- Issue No: 1+2
- Page Range: 31-51
- Page Count: 21
- Language: French
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