Abstract
As a kind of universal capacity for the communication of the state of mind, sensus communis is the premise of aesthetic judgment, a feeling of the free play of the powers of representation, and proportion of cognitive powers. When we use the concept of sensus communis, we intend to deal with the objective necessity of the confluence of the feeling of everyone with that of each. It is the constitutive principle for aesthetic pleasure, and the regulative principle for experience. Kant does not think that sensus communis is a kind of sense, but a kind of idea. However, Marxists believe that sense is universal. In aesthetic experiences, sensus communis is both confined by time and nationality. It is the central idea of European humanism to endow people with sensus communis through moral teaching. Although challenged by postmodernists, it still holds a solid central status in aesthetic experience.
First Page
6
Last Page
16
Recommended Citation
Liu, Xuguang. 2018. "The Sense of Beauty as Sensus Communis: the Issue of Sense of Beauty in Aesthetic Experiences." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 38, (2): pp.6-16. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol38/iss2/17
