Eduardo!
How do you know that aesthetics deals with non-rational knowledge? My guess is that it combines both subconscious (non-linguistic knowledge) and conscious, rationally obtained, linquistically apprehended and articulated knowledge. Why bother equating scientific rationally obtained knowledge to knowledge, however obtained, that adds,"excitement, mystery, and awe”, your only slightly veiled definition of what art affords.
I believe that aesthetics are grounded in what we are interested in about our experience in this world. A mathematician develops an aesthetic sense because his/her life is centered on that interest and aesthetic objects in that field are evident to them. I feel that is what, at its basis, is perceived as aesthetic - not something that necessarily carries “excitement, mystery, and awe” however true that may be of most aesthetic experience .
Or, so I believe,
Chuck
> On Oct 19, 2015, at 9:44 AM, Eduardo corte-real <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Aesthesis deals with with non rational knowledge. That’s why Baumgarten invented the word. It means that is not "science knowledge (that) only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower". It is precisely the part of science knowledge that is not scientific that adds excitement, mystery and awe.
Charles Burnette
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