The pluralism and egalitarism of Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz's aesthetical conception

The article is devoted to the analysis of W. Tatarkiewicz's aesthetical conception. It deals with problems of definition the subject, direction and methodological position of his aesthetical investigations. Author pays attention to the questions of multidimentional character of aesthetical phenomena, foundations of pluralism in aesthetics and value of implicit aesthetics. In philosopher's opinion, aesthetics is science about beaty and science about art - these are two main directions in investigations of aesthetics. There are also some other aesthetical problems. Tatarkiewicz argued that the definition of multidimensional development and formation of concepts of aesthetics significantly expands the scope of its investigations. At the same time it enriches the knowledge about the connection of aesthetics and other forms of consciousness. This approach has received an expression of the methodological basis that "common basis" sees in the belief in the diversity of phenomena: beautiful, artistic, aesthetic position. As a result of the approval of the heterogeneity phenomena from 1913 the program element of Tatarkiewicz's aesthetics was the notion of pluralism. An important role in the Tatarki-wicz's works play non-aesthetical, social issues. Philosopher emphasized the need to consider and include in aesthetic theory the matter of taste, fashion preferences. He tries as best as possible to convey the intellectual climate of a typical or common definition of the main stages in the development of aesthetic thought. The content of Tatarkiewicz's "History of aesthetics" defines two areas: explicite aesthetics and aesthetics implicite, contained in the statements, which only in some sense address issues of aesthetics. The philosopher believes that the material of implicit aesthetics gives the history of aesthetics many valuable observations. In this context, we can talk about a kind of "egalitarianism" of Tatarkiewicz's scientific position. He takes into account the value of many important public and artistic statements, regardless of their position in the established hierarchy. Tatarkiewicz attached the great importance to studying the history of aesthetics, because he believed that it helps to see the conditions of modern development of aesthetic theory and defines its relationship with artistic practice.

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