Acting for Aesthetic Reasons

• Authors: Maria Alvarez , Aaron Ridley
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It seems natural to think that there are aesthetic reasons for action and that an artist must be guided by such reasons as he or she begins work on the canvas or poem or symphony or marble. This latter supposition seems at odds, however, not only with classical inspiration theory but also with the views of one of the last century’s most important philosophers of art, R. G. Collingwood. We propose an account of acting for an aesthetic reason inspired by G. E. M. Anscombe’s Intention, specifically by her concept of ‘practical knowledge’, which we believe can accommodate Collingwood’s reservations about the sort of knowledge of their ends, and of the means to those ends, which artists have as they engage in their creative activity.

Keywords

EN

aesthetic judgement; rationality; aesthetic reasons; Collingwood R.; Anscombe G. E. M.; practical knowledge

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 54 (New Series 10)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 65-84
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Maria Alvarez

• Estetika, redakce, Katedra estetiky, Filozofická fakulta UK, Celená 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Aaron Ridley

• Estetika, redakce, Katedra estetiky, Filozofická fakulta UK, Celená 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic