Aesthetics as analysis of mind experience
In: Filozofija i društvo, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 617-628
ISSN: 2334-8577
The paper presents an at tempt to shed light on causes and circum stances
which brought about foundation of aesthetics in 18th century as discipline
which analyzes mind experience. Author recognizes key importance of 17th
century epistemology for constitution of modern aesthetics, principally idea
of subjectivity, subject-object relation problem and new method -
philosophical introspection. Special place in modern aesthetics, according to
author, deserves aesthetic theory of Francis Hutcheson who defines beauty as
phenomenal quality of subjective experience of human mind.