The Aesthetic as Project of Philosophical Teaching: the Early German Romanticism

Abstract

Within the framework of philosophical discussions about the challenges facing the teaching of this ancient knowledge, we believe that attending to the productions of aesthetics could be productive. The aesthetic dimension of philosophy contains a critical potential for any pedagogical and educational project that seeks integrality and unity in its perspective. The recovery of sensitivity, beauty and artistic productions as well as those processes that involve reflection can also be guided from aesthetics and become forms of philosophical teaching. To show this power of aesthetics, we will present the idea of philosophizing as an infinite approximation of the project of Early German Romanticism. For this task we characterize the meaning of the philosophizing action of Romanticism and offer general considerations about the contribution that this conception represents for the teaching of philosophy.