Rahppoye, Hekmat-e Honar

Rahppoye, Hekmat-e Honar

The object of beauty and the sublime: the opposition of sensory perception and imagination (from the perspective of Hegel, Michel Dufresne and Sartre)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
behzad asadi 1
Mahdi Ghadyani 2
1 PhD Candidate, Philosophy Humanities, Azad Tehran North, Tehran, Iran.
2 PhD student, Philosophy Humanities, Azad Tehran North, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/rph.2025.2045086.1085
Abstract
The concept of "object" from the perspective of three great philosophers, namely Hegel, Michel Dufresne and Sartre, is associated with different interpretations, which are analyzed in detail in this article. According to the temporal precedence of the views, these three thinkers have presented different approaches to the object. Hegel sees the object on three levels: first, in nature, the object appears in the form of abstract perception; In the second stage, in the rational idea, the unity of consciousness and concrete subjective reality is observed; And finally, it reaches the sublime as an inherent and absolute totality. He believes that beauty is not perceptible in its essence and goes beyond sensory perception. The lowest order of beauty is nature which consists of inanimate objects and then moves towards the most perfect order. On the other hand, Michel Dufresne, with a different point of view, believes that the third level in external reality manifests intellectually as ideal and dominant ideas. But Sartre sees the object as a product of imagination and not sensory perception. Unlike Hegel and Dufresne, he presents a different approach to solve this problem, in which the aesthetic object not only does not have a pure intellectual reality, nor is it limited to psychological aspects, but is also not seen as an object in the form of representation, and instead, It is an imaginary reality.
Keywords: object, aesthetics, sensory perception, imagination, sublime.
Keywords
object
aesthetics
sensory perception
imagination
sublime

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Rahppoye, Hekmat-e Honar
Volume 3, Issue 2 - Serial Number 5
January 2025
Pages 115-124

  • Receive Date 12 November 2024
  • Revise Date 23 December 2024
  • Accept Date 20 January 2025