Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Mojtaba Etemadinia

Abstract

In the early Wittgenstein’s aesthetic perspective, aesthetics is a way of ‘expressing’ the mystical, and the factuality of facts. Accordingly, a work of art is an object seen from sub specie aetenitutis. Sub specie aetenitutis viewing means seeing the world as a finite whole. When we see things from this perspective, forget their everyday’s profits and costs and transcend them from the facts. Hence, we see them with wonder and finite laudatory surprise in the finite whole framework. A work of art shows the wholeness of the world and therefore illustrates its meaning.
Based on early Wittgenstein, if the moral propositions are nonsensical and moral education is actualized only by examples and extensions, so art is a best example.

Keywords

• Aesthetics
• the mystical
• sub specie aetenitatis
• the unspeakable