서구 근대 이성과 미적 이성의 문제

Abstract

This paper is aimed at a search for the relationship of westem modem rationality to aesthetic rationality. Generally speaking, aesthetic emotions are reputed to be irrational, but aesthetic emotions as mental phenomena bear complex, analogical relations to rationality. Emotions give us knowledge and information about the world. The aesthetic consciousness and the mentality are inseparably related to each other. The aesthetic consciousness as the analogy of reason, in the context of A. G. Baumgarten plays a role to extend the logical world. Aesthetic rationality is based on the Kantian aesthetic terms, especially the common sense or the communicative universality. It may serve practical reason as a symbol of morality. For the argument of universality we discuss the problem of aesthetic rationality in terms of these common sense and communicability. Since the modem aesthetics, the problem of aesthetic rationality came on the stage of aesthetics. The extension of aesthetic emotion through aesthetic experience will show us the change of aesthetic rationality as a new possibility of interpretation in the multi cultural societies.