Condition «to think of the world»: aesthetic-transcendental the beginnings of phenomenological experience(the Kant - Shpet - Mamardashvili)

Using Immanuel Kant`s philosophy and phenomenological tradition as examples the author analyzes topological and anthropological aspects of the phenomenon aesthesis. I. Kant thought aesthesis as a specific condition of soul in which representation will be coordinated with itself as the basis and in which space apprehensio and comprehensio aesthetica are added by the effort of imagination. This idea finds further development in G. Shpet`s and M. Mamardashvili`s philosophical searches. Within the limits of phenomenology, reflecting on the nature of aesthetic knowledge, G. Shpet investigates aesthesis as dynamical structure of cognitive forms, and M. Mamardashvili - in his reflections about a place of the man, as condition of consciousness in a point hic et nunc. Following the described above tradition, the author offers an interpretation of aesthesis as total condition I in consciousness of the world - catharsis reflection - in a topos of which the person creates conditions to think of the world within the limits of his judgment.

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