The Universality of the Aesthetic Attitude to the World as the Creative Principle of N.I. Kiyashchenko

Abstract

The article is devoted to the discussion of the philosophical and methodological potential of one of the fruitful ideas of N.I. Kiyashchenko – the principle of the universality of a person’s aesthetic attitude to the world. In contrast to the rather widespread Hegelian point of view, according to which the aesthetic attitude to the world is limited mainly to the sphere of art, he, relying on the ac­tivity approach developed in Russian philosophy, insisted on the presence and essential role of the aesthetic attitude to the world in all spheres of human life and society in general. Through out Kiyashchenko’s creative life, this interpreta­tion of the role of the aesthetic acted as a connecting thematic line that united the diversity of scientific interests and conceptual incarnations of both himself and his fellow specialists in various fields and directions of research of the modern culture. The team headed by Kiyashchenko discussed the aesthetic aspects of un­derstanding both humanitarian and natural reality (including such fields of sci­ence as genetics, synergetics, neuroscience, etc.). The result of this collective work was a series of works associated, according to the plan of N.I. Kiya­shchenko, with the transformation of modern aesthetic ideas in their concep­tual expression. And in essence, these works represent the ideological heritage of Nikolai Ivanovich Kiyashchenko.