| Title |
Poetically man dwells: an aesthetic being of a person / |
| Authors |
Noreikaitė, Aistė |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Meta: research in hermeneutics, phenomenology, and practical philosophy.. Iasi : Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press. 2025, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 75-98.. ISSN 2067-3655 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Robert Spaemann ; aesthetics ; morality ; Immanuel Kant ; moral certainty |
| Abstract [eng] |
Article argues that, although scarce, Robert Spaemann’s considerations of fiction, creativity and aesthetics disclose an inherently aesthetic character of the constitution of being a person. It also enables us to reconstruct the aesthetic grounding of morality which offers moral certainty instead of moral objectivity as a more suitable alternative for the criterion of moral truth. The article does that by reconstructing an aesthetic constitution of being a person from Spaemann’s philosophy. It argues that the category of recognition, which is the grounding of all morality, has an intrinsic aesthetic structure that is similar to aesthetic Kantian concepts of sensus communis and the judgment of sublime. Spaemann’s statement that “Poetically man dwells” is an ontological statement about the aesthetic constitution of a person and that it has an essential importance for our understanding of morality and moral truth. |
| Published |
Iasi : Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2025 |
| CC license |
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