期刊名称：Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics
电子版ISSN：1664-5278
出版年度：2014
卷号：6
页码：208-228
出版社：European Society for Aesthetics
摘要：In this paper I will shed light on the question of whether or not aesthetic experience can constitute practical knowledge and, if so, how it achieves this. I will compare the approaches of Nelson Goodman and Edmund Husserl. Both authors treat the question of which benefits aesthetic experience can bring to certain basic skills. While one could argue alongside Goodman that repeated aesthetic experience allows for a trained and discriminating approach to artworks, according to Husserl, by viewing aesthetic objects we can learn to perceive in a more undiluted fashion and to qualify our own perception against the backdrop of the conceptual framework that shapes our everyday experience. As a consequence, aesthetic experience is not to be regarded as something that only contributes to a normatively loaded involvement in the distinct field of the ‘aesthetic’. I will argue that a phenomenological account is also of interest for understanding the practical value of aesthetic experience beyond the confined field of the arts.
