Open AccessThe idea of substantive arts
Author(s) -
David Alvargonzález
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
aisthesis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.152
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2035-8466
DOI - 10.36253/aisthesis-11912
Subject(s) - the arts , epistemology , expression (computer science) , set (abstract data type) , sociology , philosophy , political science , law , computer science , programming language
The Spanish philosopher Gustavo Bueno coined the expression “substantive arts” to refer to those arts that do not serve any immediate, mundane or practical purpose. In this paper, I briefly present this idea and put forward a definition of the substantive arts as an alternative to those used until now. Starting from the assumption that since the end of the 18th century there has been a set of arts that have their own substantivity, I expound on certain criteria widely used as distinctive features to define the substantive arts. I subsequently put forward an alternative intensional criterion to characterize the substantive arts. To end, I draw some corollaries following from the application of this criterion.