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Volume 40 • Number 4

Winter 2006


 

Philosophical Aesthetics


by Donald Phillip Verene


Is there an aesthetics of philosophy? Does philosophical discourse have a foundation in sense and sensibility? If the answer to these questions is affirmative and there is in some sense a philosophical aesthetics, what conclusions might be drawn for philosophical education?
Put another way: Does philosophy require the power of the imagination and the product of this powerimage? Or is philosophy the product of the pure concept, the rational idea? Does philosophical reason rest upon a logic that resides in thought alone that is expressed essentially in principles and arguments disconnected from images and sentiment?


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