Baumgarten:
"The Greek philosophers have
always carefully distinguished between the "aistheta" and the "noeta.""
"The "noeta," that is, what can be cognized through the higher faculty, are the object of "Logica.""
"The "aistheta" are the subject of the "episteme aisthetike" or AESTHETICA,” the science of perception."
Meditationes, §CXVI, p. 86.
"The "noeta," that is, what can be cognized through the higher faculty, are the object of "Logica.""
"The "aistheta" are the subject of the "episteme aisthetike" or AESTHETICA,” the science of perception."
Meditationes, §CXVI, p. 86.
But "Meditationes" says nothing about in what way "aesthetica" might be the science of perception!
In "The critique of pure reason," Kant nods to Baumgarten:
"The Germans are the only people who presently (1781) have come to use the word aesthetica to designate what others call the critique of taste."
"They are doing so on the basis of a rather false hope conceived by that superb analyst Baumgarten."
"Baumgarten hoped to bring our critical judging of the beautiful under rational principles, and to raise the rules for such judging to the level of a lawful science."
"Yet that endeavor is futile."
"For, as far as the principal sources of those supposed rules or criteria are concerned, they are merely EMPIRICAL."
"Hence those rules or criteria can never serve as determinate a priori laws to which our judgment of taste must conform."
"It is, rather, the other way around."
"Our judgment of taste constitutes the proper test for the correctness of those rules or criteria."
"Because of this it is advisable to follow either of two alternatives."
"One of these is to stop using "aesthetica" in this sense of critique of taste, and to reserve a more narrow use of "aesthetica" for the doctrine of 'sensibility' that is true science.
"In doing so we would also come closer to the language of the ancients and its meaning."
"Among the ancients, the division of cognition into aisthētá kai noētá [sensed or thought] was quite famous."
"The other alternative would be for "aesthetica" to share the name with speculative philosophy."
"We would then take the name of "aesthetica" partly in its transcendental meaning, and partly in the psychological meaning."
In "The critique of pure reason," Kant nods to Baumgarten:
"The Germans are the only people who presently (1781) have come to use the word aesthetica to designate what others call the critique of taste."
"They are doing so on the basis of a rather false hope conceived by that superb analyst Baumgarten."
"Baumgarten hoped to bring our critical judging of the beautiful under rational principles, and to raise the rules for such judging to the level of a lawful science."
"Yet that endeavor is futile."
"For, as far as the principal sources of those supposed rules or criteria are concerned, they are merely EMPIRICAL."
"Hence those rules or criteria can never serve as determinate a priori laws to which our judgment of taste must conform."
"It is, rather, the other way around."
"Our judgment of taste constitutes the proper test for the correctness of those rules or criteria."
"Because of this it is advisable to follow either of two alternatives."
"One of these is to stop using "aesthetica" in this sense of critique of taste, and to reserve a more narrow use of "aesthetica" for the doctrine of 'sensibility' that is true science.
"In doing so we would also come closer to the language of the ancients and its meaning."
"Among the ancients, the division of cognition into aisthētá kai noētá [sensed or thought] was quite famous."
"The other alternative would be for "aesthetica" to share the name with speculative philosophy."
"We would then take the name of "aesthetica" partly in its transcendental meaning, and partly in the psychological meaning."
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