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The Problem of the Aesthetic Establishment of Whiteheadian Philosophy

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2020, 61(), pp.121-148
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.61.0.04
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : August 11, 2020
  • Accepted : September 12, 2020
  • Published : October 31, 2020

Cho Kyung Jin 1

1중앙대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the fact that Whitehead's speculative metaphysics in itself can be determined as an aesthetic ontology, and explores under what conditions and arguments this can be possible. Whitehead regards the aesthetic as the ultimate fact and purpose of becoming entities. Therefore, the description and analysis of the creation and the core concepts for this are organized around aesthetic purpose and categories. Whitehead's philosophy can be defined as a kind of an analysis of aesthetic experience in that it is an analysis of the becoming process of entities. Thus, reading his philosophy as an aesthetic description narrative provides important insights into aesthetic matters. In this paper, by analyzing the nine categoreal obligations presented in Process and Reality from an aesthetic point of view, it is shown that the process of creation can be defined as a process of aesthetic synthesis. Furthermore, based on the premise that aesthetics deals with not only the sensuous, but also the emotional aspects of experience, by showing that the entire process of creation that Whitehead philosophically analyzes is actually dominated by emotional subjective forms, his philosophy is confirmed to be aesthetic. Finally, by applying Whitehead's philosophy to the problem of the characterization of aesthetic experience, aesthetic experience is characterized from an ontological perspective.

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