Le Professeur Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews)
auteur notamment de The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002)
et Greek Laughter: a Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008)
donnera des leçons sur le thème
An Aristotelian perspective on the relationship between aesthetics and ethics
Argument
Aristotle did more than any other single thinker to draw the map of philosophy and to define its various territories. Yet 'aesthetics' has no explicit identity within the Aristotelian system of thought. What, then, are we to make of Aristotle's relationship to aesthetics? An answer to that question clearly depends in part on what one believes aesthetics is or should be. But modern philosophy, having inherited the idea of aesthetics from the 18th century, has now lost any widely shared agreement about what this idea amounts to. In an age of competing conceptions of aesthetics, we have a paradoxical motivation for engaging in dialogue with thinkers who predated the creation of aesthetics as a specific domain of experience. The aim of this series is to reconsider certain Aristotelian concepts and arguments which still have something significant to contribute to debates about the nature of aesthetic values, not least the relationship between aesthetics and ethics.
Leçon inaugurale
Mercredi 21 avril 2010 à 16 h 30
The ethics of emotional responses to art in Aristotle
Programme des leçons suivantes
Vendredi 23 avril 2010
10 h 45 - 12 h 45: Mimesis and the representation of life
14 h - 16 h: Contemplation and cognition in the experience of art
Vendredi 30 avril 2010
10 h 45 - 12 h 45: Form and beauty
14 h - 16 h: Poetic universals
Vendredi 7 mai 2010
10 h: (How) can a life be a work of art?