Time: October 25, 105 (Tuesday)

Lecturer: Dr. Chen Qingxiu, Department of Visual Arts, National Chiayi University

Location: Tainan City Private Changrong Girls’ High School Audiovisual Classroom

Lecture content:

1. The study of beauty and art mainly involves content and form, materialism and idealism, rationality and sensibility.
2. Get to the point and tell it with perceptual and rational aesthetics.
3. The word "aesthetics" is translated from the Japanese translation of "beautiful science" (many of our previous translations of Western words came from Japan, such as the word "philosophy"), but in fact the word "aesthetics" itself often causes We Chinese speakers have the misunderstanding that this is only a study of "beauty" - even though aesthetics and beauty are closely related - but "beauty" is only one of the many types of aesthetics.
4. Appreciate the professor's works and describe the content of the works, and explore the artistic and humanistic style from aesthetic concepts.

Thoughts and feedback:

The "Father of Aesthetics" Baumgarden was a German philosopher. Many of his works later became textbooks for Kant's teaching. However, his real achievement was to advocate turning aesthetics into an independent discipline and named it " aesthetica" (aesthetics in English).                                                                                
In the traditional distinction, there are two types of human cognitive abilities, one is sensory experience, and the other is rational activities, that is, thinking activities, and thinking activities are divided into two types, namely logical thinking and intuition, imagination, etc. Relevant perceptual thinking.
However, Baumgarden could not stand the fact that his era separated logical thinking from perceptual thinking, and only respected clear rational logic, but lacked perceptual research. Due to the prevalence of rationalist philosophy at that time, he believed that there was a loophole in the philosophical system at that time. There was logic to study the understanding of "knowledge", and ethics to study the will. However, there was no corresponding science to study the perceptual knowledge of emotions. Door. Therefore, he believed that an "aesthetica" should be established as the science of perceptual knowledge. Aesthetics is a science that combines sensory experience, rational logic and perceptual thinking.                                                                                
The word aesthetica comes from the Greek word aisthanomai (feeling, the English word aesthesia means perception), and Baumgarten derived the word "aesthetica" from this Greek word, which means the study of "the aesthetic" - sensory experience. knowledge.                                                                                
Therefore, if the correct Chinese translation of aesthetica is used, it should be called "perception" or "perception".                                                                                
In philosophical terms, "sensibility" does not refer to the general saying such as "This person is very emotional." The general term "sensibility" often refers to the person's emotional richness and emotionality. However, "sensibility" in philosophical terms is It means "non-logical concept, what is sensed by the senses, and perceived and experienced."