On The Art Of The Rational Spirit

In this essay I aim to discuss a new rationality ---the ArtRationality In my opinion, the affinity between art (which serves as thesymbo1 of the human 1if e fOrce) and science (which embodies thefiJnction of Reason) bring about human society, as culture andcivilization.Art, like science, creates another universe of thought and practice.The artist possesses the ideas that guide the construction of certain thing,just as the scientist possesses the ideas, which gUide the consimction ofa theory or a machine. Surely, in contrast to the scientific universe, thendistic universe is one of i1lusion, semblance. But this semblance isresemblance to a reality that exists as the promise of the established one.The function of Rationality convergInS with the function of AItconstructsan artistic 1if e for the humankind that renders the humanexistence to a state in which the human being takes on the form andquality of Beauty and Freedom.But today technological civilization estab1ishes a specific relationbetWeen aIt and science. The Logos of techniques alienates the relationbetween science and its primaIy object~--Nature (material andintellectual). There is a crisis in the entirety of the human mind. Theinstrumentalities of modern society transfOrm the spirit into the physical,the inner into the oarer, the developmeflt of the mind inio adveamres oftechnOlogy.The exploitive features of technological rationality make thescientific progress no longer accompanied by the aesthetic imagery(which embodied by poetic language). The aesthetic dimension of thehuman mind lost its ontOlogy. The re1ation between the material andintellectual faculties and needs undergoes a fundamental change.Knowledge overpowers Wisdom.The fluman should reshape and reorder himself in accordance withthe demands of the wt fOrm, which requires that even the representationof death and destruction invoke the need for hope---a need rooted in theprimitive consciousness of human-beings.This is the function of the art rationality, which gives the aesthetictransfOrmation for humankind: the given reality is necessarilysublimated. In its autonomy aft rationality both protesathe rea1 relations,and at the same time transcends them. Under the law of the artI\rationality the aesthetic transformation is achieved through a reshaPingof language, perception and understanding so that they reveal the trueessence of human spirit.An rationality reflects the great dynaxnic of human mind in itsinsistence on its own ed. It fulfills the cognitive and constwtivedriction. It is committed to create a new world that alters individualsfrom their functional existence and performance in society. It iscommitted to an emancipation of $ensibility, imagination and rationalityin al1 spheres of the human mind.The emergence of human beings as "species beings" thatdistinguished from other living beings---men and women capable ofliving in the comxnunity of freedom that is the potential of the species isthe subjective basis of a free society.In the free society the images of the beauty and of fiJlfil1mentwould become aspects of the realityThe essay is composed of three parts.The first part "the possibility of the an rationa1ity'; Which attempt!to expose the affinity of mythological consciousness and scieotific.consciousness; the relation between language and human mind; thehuman mind as a who1e.The second pan" the ari rationality as a new world outlook and anew nd view" aims to account fOr the autonomous and reflective,aesthetic characters of the art rationality. All the features make the wtrationality an open, constamly transcendental and constrUctive newworld outlook.The third part" art rationality and art activity'; which studies andanalyses the contemporary literatUre for illuminating how art rationalitynUrtUrQand guidaall spheres of art activity.Art rationality is a productive force. As Marcuse notes in...