期刊名称：Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics
电子版ISSN：1664-5278
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
页码：193-205
出版社：European Society for Aesthetics
摘要：Within philosophical aesthetics, discussions of value tend to focus on the aesthetic values of particular things (e.g. artworks, or natural objects), leaving the question of the value or worth of creating and experiencing art – a pressing question for artists, art educators and policy makers – comparatively unaddressed. Drawing on R. G. Collingwood’s account of art, this paper offers an answer to the question why the pursuit of artistic activities is valuable, arguing that, when artworks are engaged with as expressions to be understood ‘historically’, in Collingwood’s sense, doing so can offer a solution to the moral and epistemic problem of ‘value-blindness’ discussed by William James in his essay “On A Certain Blindness in Human Beings”, and so gives at least one reason why artistic pursuits are of value.
