Toward the Phenomenology of Aesthetic Instinct Developed Through a Dialogue with F. Schiller

Abstract

It is the aim of this paper to clarify the phenomenological concept of the aesthetic instinct and to sketch the phenomenology of aesthetic instinct that has its basis in concrete aesthetic experience. In Sect. 14.1, I will delineate Schiller's concept of the aesthetic instinct. In Sect. 14.2, I will assess Schiller's concept of the aesthetic instinct, and in Sect. 14.3, I will give a brief sketch of the phenomenological concept of the aesthetic instinct.