Comment for Selection of Goodman's Aesthetics

  Through the reading, Goodman explains the relationship among symbol, art and understanding of world. In his opinion, people use symbols to perceive, understand and construct the world of people's experience; and the understanding of the world are consist by different science and different arts. So,people use symbols to compose artworks in processing different functions and bearing different relations with the world they refer to,which like a particular cognitive for the world. Because of the complicated construction, people need explanation and description to help them understand three things about artworks: theme, method and style/system of rules. Also, the aim of art is understanding the world, which get the same aim of other form of human knowledge. So art is a branch of epistemology. Art is a important part of understanding and making knowledge enterprise. Since the process of making art is a mode like making seriously science; through discovery, creation and refine the knowledge that base on understanding. It can be said, art is the second development for the part of things of the world to understanding, Before arts show up by aesthetics symbols, everything about the artworks must be deliberated and it is a serious behavior.