Aesthetic pleasure for a person

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:43

It is rather difficult to assess the importance of aesthetic satisfaction, because beauty and its role in the life of each person are different. However, first of all, it is worth understanding what aesthetics is. The definition that is given in the dictionary of foreign languages (in a concept that refers specifically to sensory perception) is as follows. It is a philosophical discipline that studies expressive forms that correspond to the human concept of beauty and ugliness, sublime and base. Artistic creativity is perceived under the prism of aesthetics, as one of the forms of ideology.

In 1790 the great Kant published a treatise on aesthetics and theology. Recognizing the theoretical and practical reason in man, Kant also endows him with a third property - the reflective ability of judgment, which is manifested in the judgment of taste and aesthetics. According to Kant, aesthetic pleasure is the pleasure from the representation of an object, even if it is not really present. In this regard, the pleasant impression that a really present object brings may not evoke aesthetic feelings in us. And indeed it is. Animals are capable of perceiving pleasant things, but experiencingaesthetic pleasure can only be people.

Aesthetic understanding of the surrounding reality by a person is a very complex process. After all, a person needs to activate the reserves of sensory perception, learn to give an emotionally colored assessment, call on the resources of creative knowledge and transformation, which, alas, we are not rich with.

Aesthetic perception

A person can receive aesthetic pleasure through direct sensory contact with an object or phenomenon through the senses. In perception, we are primarily helped by sight and hearing.

Perceiving the real properties of phenomena or objects, a person gives rise to certain emotions, of which there can be a lot. Among them are (lower) biological and (higher) spiritual. There is no doubt that a person is endowed with lower emotions from birth, they are transmitted in hereditary form and are also characteristic of higher animals. However, only a person can experience spiritual emotions. They arise in the process of his formation and development as a person, and the experience of previous generations joins them. The manifestation of spiritual emotions is impossible without communication of a person with his own kind, without his acquaintance with cultural values.

Being in any emotional state for a long time, a person experiences an aesthetic experience. Then it is reborn into an aesthetic impression, which, as a result, forms aesthetic feelings.

However, experiences thatare manifestations of higher

emotions are nevertheless inextricably linked with biological ones. After all, if a person experiences fear, hunger or pain, it is unlikely that the sounds of elegant music will give him aesthetic pleasure. Enjoying the paintings of I. K. Aivazovsky or listening to the sound of the surf, we experience genuine admiration for the indomitable power of sea waves. But once on the high seas in a storm, a person will no longer admire the sea element.

Aesthetic mood is a special mental state inherent in a person. It is expressed in a willingness to satisfy aesthetic needs, while such experiences are disinterested.