认知美学的迷途

Astray of cognitive aesthetics

认知美学从全盘否定美的本质问题入手,极力宣扬科学主义美学。科学主义美学是19世纪末到20世纪在西方兴起的一股美学思潮,它"拒斥形而上学",反对本质主义,唯自然科学是从,否定人文科学的特殊性,否认美的本质问题。实际上,科学主义美学思潮只是西方美学发展的一个方面,并不是西方美学发展的全部,以科学主义美学否定人文科学和人本主义美学,只能走入偏执的迷途。美的本质问题是作为人文科学和边缘科学的美学必须首先确定的问题,否则美学研究必定误入歧途,认知美学就是在否认美的本质问题的歧路上进入了无出路的迷途。美的本质问题是一个哲学问题、人文科学问题、跨学科问题,科学主义美学是不敢问津和无能为力的,认知美学就只能在科学主义的迷途里徘徊不进,掉进了西方近代认识论美学的泥潭不能自拔。

Cognitive aesthetics that starts by total negation of beauty and extraordinary exaggeration of the scientific aesthetics falls into the dead end of scientism.Scientism of aesthetics arises by the end of the19 th and the beginning of the 20 th centuries in the west,which embraces empirical,natural aesthetics and analytic philosophy and aesthetics,but contends against metaphysics and essentialism.In fact,scientific aesthetics is quite partial rather than whole of the western aesthetic development,and is bound to fall into paranoid astray.The primary question is to clarify the essence of beauty as humanities or as inter-disciplinary subject.In short,the essence of aesthetics is a philosophical,humanistic,and interdisciplinary issue.