Towards to the aesthetics of science

Abstract

The article pleads for the revision of the usual understanding of the relationship between science and art as “incommensurable competitors”, whose mutual exclusion has lead in the past to the establishing of a polarity between the rationality of science and the “irrationality” of art, exactitude and expressiveness, logics and feelings, measurement and metaphorics, calculation and imagination, etc. In opposition to this exclusional dualistic scheme according to which aesthetics has its place in art only and is not connected with scientific thought, there is a different view illustrated by many examples which could help in our revision of the long lasting stereotype. Aesthetics in the sense of cognitio sensitivae should not be connected with the blind, the naive and with the uneducated, i.e. separated from reason, but as a view of cognitive ability and as an element of cognition, therefore also as an element of scientific cognition.