A Discussion on the Art Subject "Bringing Sensitivity into Play" : An Attempt to Interpret Art and Handicraft in Elementary Schools Using Kant's Epistemological Model (I)

Abstract

In this paper, by using a phenomenological method of thinking, I attempt to abstract an epistemological model from Kant's philosophy of which the starting point is sensibility, and to construct the "inner perspective" that all the teachers are able to share understandings about art and handicraft in principle, and especially the art subject, "Bringing Sensitivity into Play." Discussion focuses on two interpretations of that subject using the model named "faculty-correlative schema of representation." One is a narrow sense, "while accepting diverse appearances with their sensibility," and the other is in a wide sense, "while discarding their misunderstandings of things through sensing appearances, and expanding the possibility of their experiences."