Aesthetics in Discipline-Based Art Education

Abstract

Although term aesthetics was first used by German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten in 1744 to mean the science of beautiful, philosophical reflections on nature of beauty date from earliest of classical times. The word itself comes from Greek root aestbetikos, pertaining to sense perception. This link between perceptual and was clearly expressed in 13th century by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his remarks that the is that whose very apprehension pleases (id cujus ipsa apprebensio placet) and that beautiful things are those which please when seen (pulchra enim dicuntur quae visa placent) (Beardsley, 1966, pp. 101-102). And even as late as turn of last century, aesthetics was defined as philosophy of (Bosanquet, 1892). Today, however, aesthetics is conceived somewhat more broadly and tends not to concentrate exclusively on concept of beauty, although that idea is still explored (see Sircello, 1975; Mothersill, 1984). As a philosophical discipline, aesthetics is attempt to understand our experiences of and concepts we use to talk about objects that we find perceptually interesting and attractive-objects that can be valued not simply as means to other ends but in themselves or for their own sake. As a teacher of mine

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