tailieunhanh - THE IMPACT OF AESTHETIC IMAGINATION ON OUR ETHICAL APPROACH TOWARDS NATURE

The initiating problem is unstructured design processes and vague descriptions of the form problems in the students’ critique of each other's product proposals, and very vague presentations of the product's aesthetic qualities in their reports. The problem must be seen in relation to the fact that the majority of the students can express themselves clearly in engineering fields and that design methodology is based on technical parameters. Our idea is to obtain a structured design process and better articulation of the form and accentuation of its aesthetic qualities by encouraging the students to use systematic clarification of the leading feature. | Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 1 No. 2 August 2004 The Impact of Aesthetic Imagination on our Ethical Approach towards nature1 Christian Denker university of Paris - 1 Introduction Art has become the major issue of aesthetic reflection during modernity but 20th century philosophers have reintroduced nature in the centre of aesthetic reflection. The Anglo-saxon discourse on the aesthetic value of nature often neglects that aesthetically experienced nature has concurrently become a focus of contemporary German philosophers as well. By talking about the impact of aesthetic imagination on our ethical approach towards nature i will attempt to elaborate two major lines of thought of Martin Seel s The Aesthetics of Nature2 published in 1991. why is aesthetic experience of nature important in our everyday lives This will be my main question. After defining the meaning of imagination and aesthetic nature in the context of seel s thought i will reflect on two aspects of this question. Firstly i will focus on the function of imagination within our aesthetic experience of nature. secondly i will expose some ethical implications of the aesthetic approach to nature. My conclusion will emphasize the importance of aesthetic imagination for our personal and collective behaviour towards nature. Seel s basic idea of a junction between the aesthetic and the ethical approach towards nature 1 This paper was presented at The Value of Aesthetic Experience graduate student conference at Senate House University of London June 2004. 2 Martin Seel Eine Àsthetik der Natur Frankfurt Suhrkamp 1991 51 Christian Denker is simple we should take responsibility for the existence of free nature which is a condition for the possibility of an aesthetic appreciation of nature which is part of what Seel calls a good individual life. Even if I personally agree with the major lines of Seel s position I m aware that my treatment of his view may lead to difficulties in several contexts. In spite of .

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