Moses Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics as Philosophy of Psychology

Piotr Kozak

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/szhf.2016.046

Abstract


The aim of the text is an elaboration of the Moses Mendelssohn’s aesthetics and its connections to the German philosophical thought of Enlightenment. I analyze the issue of sensations and so-called mixed sensations and I argue that they are the necessary condition of cognition. I present the relations between aesthetics and ethics and I elaborate so-called theory of three faculties. I argue that sense is an element conjoining action and cognition.

Keywords


Mendelssohn; aesthetics; ethics; sensibility; feelings

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