Aesthetic Judgment Is the Bioconceptography of Vocation

Abstract

Starting from a main task of the round table “Aesthetics in Life and Teaching: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” (in memory of N.I. Kiyashchenko) the article highlights the most actual subjects of the chosen perspective and analyses its po­tential for further deployment in a polemic way. The author addresses the under­standing of aesthetics as theoretically designed knowledge, what becomes possi­ble due to an appeal to philosophical reflexion and practical activity, that aims to educate the youth in a aesthetic way. The specified combination is considered through an ability of the actor for the formation of aesthetic judgment. It is based on its orientation towards aesthetic, aspiring non-utilitarian, supersensual (I. Kant). The article articulates the specifics of aesthetic judgment and analysis in the sys­tem of modern philosophical knowledge. Aesthetic thinking makes it possible to remove contradictions generated by rigorous adherence to a conceptual ap­paratus that claims to be extremely adequate in the only possible way. From the author’s point of view, the aesthetic directly works with the basic philosophi­cal operation of reflection, filling it with productive content. The modality of aestheticization – the state of personality formation between the highlighted limits of the sensual and the supersensual – is marked as the possibility of its value parameterization in response to the challenges of contesting each other’s vocation and the time in which one is brought to live. The aestheticization of life and theoretical judgment in philosophical categories has significant applications at the level of existential analysis of life in the conditions of mass culture and mass art. The article shows that N.I. Kiyashchenko outlined the current vectors of understanding modernity from the standpoint of aesthetic theory, which can help in solving the contradictions of personality development in new conditions.