Aesthetica and "Eudaimonia": Education for Flourishing Must Include the Arts

Autor/in	D'Olimpio, Laura
Titel	Aesthetica and "Eudaimonia": Education for Flourishing Must Include the Arts
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56 (2022) 2, S.238-250 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (D'Olimpio, Laura)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/1467-9752.12661
Schlagwörter	Aesthetics; Art Education; Educational Philosophy; Aesthetic Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ästhetik; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Ästhetische Bildung
Abstract	The point of education is to support students to be able to live meaningful, autonomous lives, filled with rich experiences. The arts and aesthetic education are vital to such flourishing lives in that they afford bold, beautiful, moving experiences of awe, wonder and the sublime that are connected to the central human functional capability Nussbaum labels "senses," "imagination" and "thought." Everyone ought to have the opportunity to learn about art, to appreciate and create art, to critique art and to understand how we are connected to the culture of our society. A life without art is unimaginable, and to the extent that people lack aesthetic experiences, their lives are impoverished, not 'fully human'. Given that the distinctive value of art objects is that they afford aesthetic experience, it is upon this foundation that an argument ought to be mounted as to why schooling needs the arts, specialised teachers, and all students deserve aesthetic education. Therefore, in this paper, I offer a defence of compulsory aesthetic education across the curriculum on the basis of the aesthetic experiences the arts afford, and the central role such experiences play in "eudaimonia"--the flourishing life. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01