Aesthetic Experience and its Role beyond Philosophy
IASMINA PETROVICI, ALEXANDRU CONDRACHEABSTRACT. The aesthetic experience can be appreciated as one of the fundamental human attitudes, as a complex relationship between the aesthetic object and the aesthetic subject. The first part of the present study will discuss the specifics of the aesthetic experience and the stages of its constitution, concerning some paradigmatic theories of philosophical aesthetics. In the second part of the study, we shall analyze how the aesthetic experience is realized either in the judgment of taste or in the aesthetic judgment. The study will end with a brief analysis regarding the role of aesthetic experience in relation to various educational contexts.
Keywords: aesthetic experience; aesthetic sensitivity; judgment of taste; education; axiology; human behaviour