Research on Aesthetic Ontology Based on Whiteheadian Philosophy

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23014
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0101:Philosophy, art, and related fields
• Research Institution: Nagasaki University
• Principal Investigator: MORI Motonao 長崎大学, 多文化社会学部, 准教授 (40846052)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: ホワイトヘッド哲学 / アナキズム思想史 / 美的なもの / 相互扶助 / 自然 / 具体性 / 生の哲学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By focusing on the concepts of "concreteness" and "aesthetic" in Whitehead's philosophy and "mutual aid" and "nature" in anarchism, I clarified how "beauty" as a bond in society can be discussed. As a theoretical as well as a practical result, it was revealed that there is an aspect in which labor works with nature and explores the aesthetic on the basis of life in satoyama. The aesthetic here refers to the order that emerges when humans work moderately with nature, and the way in which this makes life possible. The aesthetic is not an excessive intervention in nature, but rather a specific perspective of human beings as passive beings, not forcing life and nature, while involving people, and then working with nature in a dynamic way.

Free Research Field

哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

都市での暮らしではなく、里山での生活実践の中で、資本主義とは異なる生の営みを構想することで、私たちの生が一つではなく、諸々の可能性に満ちていることを社会的意義として成果を表した。その一方で、原理論的なホワイトヘッド哲学や歴史上の抵抗の運動史が一体どのように駆動していったのかを学術的にも明らかにした。そこには美的なものが中心に据えられているのである。