Aesthetics with a Focus on the Concept of Ethics from the Perspective of Yuriko Saito

The paper examines the ethical dimension of Yuriko Saito’s aesthetics. Her recent work explicitly points to the inseparability of aesthetics from the rest of life, especially moral concerns. She believes that aesthetics requires overcoming the subject-object gap and adopting an open-minded attitude, responsiveness, interaction, and cooperation. These requirements not only define the nature of the aesthetic experience, but also, more fundamentally, how we are present in the world and the moral responsibility that comes with it. The article addresses the question of how ethical judgment influences aesthetic judgments by Yuriko Saito. Also, the hypothesis of this research is that, from the point of view of this thinker, the aesthetic matter is not separate from the moral matter and the aesthetic status of a work of art or urban environment depends on its moral status. This paper has been done by descriptive-analytical method and data gathering is library-based. Yuriko Saito’s views on the aesthetics of the description and important aspects of her worldview and aesthetics are analyzed.