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Lessons of Solitude: The Awakening of Aesthetic Sensibility
Author(s) -
CARANFA ANGELO
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00539.x
Subject(s) - contemplation , solitude , intellect , aesthetics , sensibility , perspective (graphical) , beauty , constructive , reciprocal , epistemology , action (physics) , value (mathematics) , sociology , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , art , literature , linguistics , physics , process (computing) , quantum mechanics , machine learning , psychiatry , computer science , visual arts , operating system
This paper explores the contextual value of solitude in learning; in so doing, it attempts to suggest an alternative method of instruction that is based on aesthetics as the reciprocal relationship between emotions and intellect, and between action and contemplation. Such an aesthetic education or method seeks to guide the student towards the attainment of her own life: to perfect, as much as possible, her human qualities in what she does by paying attention to the things of Beauty. The method that the essay uses is both historical and interdisciplinary: it draws from theology, philosophy, the sciences and visual art; and, it is guided by an explanatory perspective that is constructive.