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Motif of antinomy of taste in the Frank Sibley's work
Švehla, Matěj ; Kubalík, Štěpán (advisor) ; Kulka, Tomáš (referee)
The topic of this bachelor's thesis is the interpretation of the reflections of the British aesthetician and philosopher of ordinary language Frank N. Sibley, whose contributions to the discussion of aesthetic judgment within the Anglo-American analytical philosophical tradition represent key moments of this debate as a modern formulation of Antinomy of Taste. Attention is paid not only to Sibley's famous article Aesthetic Concepts, but also to three critical commentaries aimed at the article (Hubert R. G. Schwyzer, David Novitz, Mary Mothersill), which come from the background of analytic aesthetics as well and through its controversy reveals the issue of aesthetic judgment in Sibley's work, more precisely the motif of Antinomy of Taste. This revelation is made explicit on a comparison of selected Sibley's moments with Kant's original formulation of the Antinomy of Taste and on a comparison of the contradiction between the two axioms of common sense formulated in David Hume's contemplation. The work not only confirms the motif of the Antinomy of Taste in Sibley's work, but also assesses whether there are convincing reasons for rejecting the idea of Antinomy of Taste and the idea of autonomous aesthetic value, which are demonstrated in critique by David Novitz. Key words aesthetic concepts,...
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