Lecture 04 discusses the relationship between aesthetics and science, defining science as an organized system of knowledge subordinated to social practices. It emphasizes that while aesthetics utilizes scientific methods, it is fundamentally distinct as its goal is the pursuit of truth rather than mere facts. The lecture highlights the interconnectedness of aesthetic knowledge, categorizing it within a system influenced by practical and artistic cognition.

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Aesthetics and Design-I , Part-A, Lecture - 04
AESTHETICS and SCIENCE

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Is Aesthetics Science ?
AESTHETICS and SCIENCE
Science is -
Knowledge organized in a certain way and subordinated to social practice

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Science is a System
Aesthetic knowledge
as a System
AESTHETICS and SCIENCE

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Science is a System
1. Logical connection and subordination,
a hierarchy of concepts, categories
and laws and specific order of issues
2. System of organized multitude of
separate elements
3. Concrete and universal ideas
interlinked in a scientific system,
disengaged from facts
Aesthetic knowledge
as a System
1. Aesthetic knowledge tied up with
adjacent problems and dealt with as
part of an overall system
2. System of laws and categories, values,
cognition, laws of beautiful,
perception, social function
3. Theories based on infinite realm of
practical and artistic cognition of the
world according to the laws of
beautiful
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Science is a System
4. Monism, i.e. same initial position for
all phenomena
5. Nothing superfluous, principle of
minimum sufficiency
6. Open to unknown facts and
phenomenon
Aesthetic knowledge as
a System
4. Interpretation of aesthetic as the
‘universally valuable’
5. A world outlook based on minimum
hypothesis
6. Possibilities of aesthetic cognition of the
world are boundless
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 Aesthetics is not science.
 As a system it uses scientific methods,
 The aim of science is the ‘Facts’;
 The goal of Aesthetics is the ‘Truth’.
Aesthetics and Science
AESTHETICS and SCIENCE

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