Aesthetic Judgment, Embodied Rationality, and the Truth of Appearances: An Introduction to Roger Scruton’s Philosophical Anthropology

• Authors: Paul T. Wilford , Eryn Rozonoyer

Abstracts

EN

This paper offers an interpretation of and introduction to the philosophical anthropology of Roger Scruton through an examination of the aesthetic dimension of human rationality. We argue that attending to our aesthetic experience as individuated subjects capable of intersubjective communion offers a helpful corrective to the deracinated and disembodied view of human rationality prevalent in much of our contemporary ethical and scientific discourse. Through a consideration of how embodied rationality is at work in four different forms of art – painting, music, dance, and architecture – our paper develops the rudiments of a more concrete philosophical anthropology, and on the basis of first principles advances a normative claim about the importance of art and beauty to human life.

Keywords

EN

aesthetics; art; beauty; rationality; subjectivity; Roger Scruton

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 115-135

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Paul T. Wilford

• Boston College

• https://orcid.org/0000000181721325

author

Eryn Rozonoyer

• Boston College

• https://orcid.org/000000034581318X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2023.0026

Biblioteka Nauki

22446443