著者

木幡 順三

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, no.2, pp.36-48, 1960-09-30

---

It seems that Diderot's treatise on the beauti ful whichwas written as an article for the French Encyclopaedic Dictionary (1952) is lacking in logical consequence. This intricated doctrine has its key-note in the peculier notion of "perception des rapports". The aim of our approach lies in calling special attention to the principal idea, rapport, which may be too vast and vague to be a terminology of scientific statement. Diderot's notion of rapports properly contains some different meanings. It would be considered as a form, rational and harmonic, including symmetry, proportion, order etc. But Diderot failed in fixation of organic unity of the beautiful. moreover it is to be regretted that he denied the aesthetic significance of fiction : rapport fictif. Here we must remark that the division of the beautiful (le beau reel, le beau relatif) was derived from the very notion of rapport, and that the division would be situated in a row of development from Hutcheson to Home and Kant. It is almost clear that a sort of teleological comprehension lies at the bottom of his thought. In this regard we must profoundly analyse the relation between the beautiful and the useful.