It is quite difficult to assess the importance of aesthetic satisfaction, because beauty and its role in each person’s life are different. However, first of all, it is worth understanding what aesthetics are. The definition that is given in the dictionary of foreign languages (in a concept that relates specifically to sensory perception) is as follows. This is a philosophical discipline that studies expressive forms that correspond to a person's idea of the beautiful and the ugly, the sublime and the base. Artistic work is perceived under the prism of aesthetics as one of the forms of ideology.
In 1790, the great Kant published a treatise that is devoted to aesthetics and theology. Recognizing the theoretical and practical reason in man, Kant endows him with the third property - the reflecting power of judgment, which is manifested in the judgment of taste and aesthetics. According to Kant, aesthetic pleasure is the pleasure of presenting an object, even a real one. In this regard, the pleasant impression that an object actually present may not cause aesthetic feelings in us. And indeed it is. Animals are capable of perceiving pleasant things, and only people can experience aesthetic pleasure.
Aesthetic understanding of the surrounding reality by man is a very complex process. After all, it is necessary for the individual to activate the reserves of sensory perception, learn to give an emotionally colored assessment, call on the resources of creative knowledge and transformation, which, alas, are not rich.
Aesthetic perception
A person can get aesthetic pleasure in direct sensory contact with an object or phenomenon through the senses. In perception, we are primarily helped by vision and hearing.
Perceiving the real properties of phenomena or objects, a person gives rise to certain emotions, which can be very many. Among them are distinguished (lower) biological and (higher) spiritual. There is no doubt that the person is endowed with lower emotions from birth, they are transmitted in a hereditary form and are also characteristic of higher animals. However, only a person can experience spiritual emotions. They arise in the process of its formation and development as an individual, and the experience of previous generations joins them. The manifestation of spiritual emotions is impossible without a person communicating with his own kind, without his acquaintance with cultural values.
Being for a long time in some kind of emotional state, a person experiences an aesthetic experience. Then it degenerates into an aesthetic impression, which, as a result, forms aesthetic feelings.
However, such experiences that are a manifestation of higher
emotions are still inextricably linked with biological. After all, if a person experiences fear, hunger or pain, it is unlikely that the sounds of elegant music will give him aesthetic pleasure. Enjoying the paintings of I.K. Aivazovsky or listening to the sound of the surf, we experience genuine admiration for the indomitable force of
sea waves. But once in the open sea in a storm, a person will no longer admire the sea element.
Aesthetic mood is a special mental state inherent in a person. It is expressed in readiness to satisfy aesthetic needs, while such experiences are disinterested.