著者

井奥 陽子

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.70, no.1, pp.1-12, 2019 (Released:2021-05-08)

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The birth of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline was the attempt to include beauty, art and sensibility, i. e. the individual in philosophy. Hence the problem of individual is essential for Wolffian aesthetics. As it is well known, Baumgarten asserts that proper names are highly poetic. However, it is not yet revealed how they would bring a poetic effect. In this paper, I provide an explanation by “emphasis” and “mathematic infinity” of notes in an individual, basing on Meier. I argue that “complete determinations” or enormous notes of an individual are represented as implications of a proper name, and that, no matter how numerous notes are not recognized, a proper name could bring beauty through the high potentiality of notes, which indicates inexhaustibility of the individual. This conclusion suggests that Meier takes the limitations of human recognition positive in aesthetics, and that’s why he found significance in the new discipline and endeavored to promote it.