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This chapter intends to be a contemporary interpretation of the aesthetic views of Ibn Sina and Aristotle on the basis of aesthetic value. In the first half of the chapter, I compared and discussed mainly the aesthetic views of Ibn Sina and those of Aristotle. In the second half of the chapter, I focused on the problem of catharsis in Aristotle. The aesthetic views of Ibn Sina and Aristotle move on the central of the theory of mimesis. Additionally, Ibn Sina emphasizes that artistic creativity is an imaginative creativity. I argued for that catharsis in both Aristotle and Ibn Sina is neither an experience which makes art an ethical activity nor an intellectual clarification or therapeutic experience. On the contrary, catharsis is an aesthetic experience that is founded by moral value and its realistic effect. Catharsis is the existential meaning of the art.
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Turker, H. (2010). A Discussion of the Aesthetic Views of Ibn Sina and Aristotle on the Basis of Aesthetic Value. In: Tymieniecka, AT., Muhtaroglu, N. (eds) Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today. Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3573-8_9
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