Analyzing the theory of aesthetic experience of John Dewey

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

maryam ansari ¹ , hasanali nasrabadi ² , M.Javad Leiaghatdar ³ , khosro bagheri ⁴

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2 - 2و3 دانشیار گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
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4 - 4استاد گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2014-06-22

Keywords: Aesthetic experience, Aesthetic, Experience,

Abstract :

Aesthetic is branch of philosophy discussing about the perception issues including beauty, such as aesthetic experience. John Dewey, a pragmatic philosopher, shared the twentieth century with the possibility of an empirically grounded ethics. There is much to learn from Dewey about how to proceed in an aesthetic experience in quire about morality. Therefore, it is important to explore the relation between Dewey's ethics and his aesthetic experience. This essay with analytical method was an effort to explore this relation. The result showed that aesthetic experience responded to the demand of feeling in difference situations. Therefore, artistic factors of this experience such as feeling, imagination and compassion are the essential components of morality to complete the experience, understanding, and meaning of morality in the people. Moreover, aesthetic experience and moral education are inseparable.