Croce :: Design and Technology

CroceIntuition, Expression and CommunicationBA 3D Design.Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) perhaps the nearly important philosopher ofthe twentieth century lived most of his life in Naples born in theAbruzzi hills a elder son of an ancient and wealthy Neapolitan familywas for decades Italys exemplar of the indispensable link betweenintellect and conscience, a philosopher, historian, and critic hisapproach is one usually termed neo-idealist his aesthetic derivesprincipally from earlier idealist G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) andGiambatista Vico (1668-1774).Croces possibly best-known work was published in 1902 Philosophy ofthe spirit which was divided into four parts Aesthetic as the Scienceof Expression and normal Linguistics, Logic as the Science of PureConcept, Philosophy of the Practical, and History Its Theory andPractice But my main concern is with Estetica come scienza dellespressione e linguistica generale or Aesthetic as the Science ofExpression and General Linguistics within his analys is he statesthat experience is only intuition in as utmost as it is, in that veryact, expression. In other(a) words he argues that intuition is one andthe same as expression what he inwardness by this is all genuine examplesof intuition are in fact examples of expression, and all genuineexamples of expression are examples of intuition one is a composite plant offeeling and thought, while the other is the image that derives from itbut for Croce they are the interior and exterior views of the samething. Plausibly, we cannot have an intuition without an equivalentexpression in other terms that is like talking about a piece of artwork or sculpture inside us that we are incapable of expressing inform. Although people do talk that way from time to time, of course,but others are entitled to doubt whether the art piece is really thereinside the mortal or not. The reason we may think we have intuitionsthat we cannot express is that most of our intuitions like ourmemories are cloudy and vague, when we come to actualize them werealize this and put the chemise down to poor technique or skill. Whatdistinguishes artists from the inartistic and the rest of us thatartists intuitions have become much clearer than ours and have alsobecome much clearer shut away in the process of expression within theirart work itself.But he does make a distinction between expression and communicationthe thirdly factor in the artistic process which in itself is quiteunimportant. Croce argues that expression does not basically involvecommunication. A person can have an intuition in their head and itwill count as a genuine expression even if they never try to