George Santayana's Aesthetics Thought and Its Significance In Aesthetics of Education

• Main Authors: Yin-Hua Hsu, 許尹鏵
• Other Authors: Ferng-Chyi Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14324658729877134183

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育學系 === 100 === This thesis explores American philosopher George Santayana's thinking on Aesthetics and its Significance in the aesthetics of education. The hermeneutics and analytic philosophy method was used to analyze the background of George Santayana and the significance of his attribution on the aesthetics of education. Second, this thesis discusses George Santayana’s naturalistic aesthetic ideas, which inherited and corrected Kant's aesthetic thought. Then George Santayana’s main aesthetic writing “The Sense of Beauty” was introduced as the basis to illustrate the changes of his aesthetic views from the earlier to the later time. The core of George Santayana’s aesthetic ideas can be divided into two parts: One is the beauty. This part discusses his views on the nature, material, form and expression of beauty, and introduces his unique perspective on play. The other is the different aspects of the meaning of art and taste, including the art of content and type, and the cultivation of aesthetic taste. In sum, George Santayana’s aesthetic ideas emphasize on the operation of senses, imagination and reason, and a variety of art types. These findings can be use to promote people’s aesthetic experience and taste. In order to establish aesthetics education in Taiwan, there are three key findings can be used: 1.Education is an unexpected adventure, which includes the dimensions of creation and destruction. The educational process employs sense and sensibility as an expression of love. The aim of education is the pursuit of natural and reasonable happiness, and leads people to be themselves in the end. 2.Teachers should be poets. They must love to travel, turn stones into gold, focus on sensory experiences, cultivate romantic character in life, own a wealth of knowledge, continue to broaden their own horizons and elevate their minds. 3.Teachers must evoke students’ sensory perception, stimulate students' imagination, and cultivate their aesthetic experiences via adequately utilizing a variety of materials, such as music, images, myths, stories, poems, and plays.