ESTETİK DÜŞÜNCENİN KAVRAMSAL VE İLİŞKİSEL BOYUTU

The word aesthetics comes from the Greek word "aisthesis" or "aisthanesthai". The word "aisthesis" means sensation, perception and the word "aisthanesthai" means perceiving with the senses. It can be seen that some thinkers use the word "aesthetics" in both senses. For example, Kant uses the word aesthetics in the sense of both sensuality and today's aesthetic science (Tunalı, 2012: 13). Alexander G. Baumgarten is the founder of aesthetics as a scientific research field. According to him, a special term was needed to express its own logic of sensation, and eventually he named it aesthetics, starting from aisthesis, which means "related to the senses" in Greek (Baumgarten, 23: 1954). According to Baumgarten, the goal of logical comprehension is real, the goal of aesthetic (sensory) comprehension is beautiful. Aesthetics is the science of beauty. Beautiful is perfection perceived by the senses, and truth is perfection perceived by reason. Good is the perfection achieved by moral will (Tolstoy, 2015: 21). In his Aesthetica, published in 1750-1758, Baumgarten bases such a science for the first time, determines its subject and draws the boundaries of this science. In his doctoral dissertation titled “Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus” (Some Philosophical Thoughts on Poetry), which he published in 1735, he mentioned the possibility of such a science. For the first time, the word aesthetics is used in the aesthetics book as the name of such a science. In this study, the conceptual dimension and relationship of aesthetic thought will be examined.