The point of education is to support students to be able to live meaningful, autonomous lives, filled with rich experiences. The arts and aesthetic education are vital to such flourishing lives in that they afford bold, beautiful, moving experiences of awe, wonder and the sublime that are connected to the central human functional capability Nussbaum labels senses, imagination and thought. Everyone ought to have the opportunity to learn about art, to appreciate and create art, to critique art and to understand how we are connected to the culture of our society. A life without art is unimaginable, and to the extent that people lack aesthetic experiences, their lives are impoverished, not ‘fully human’. Given that the distinctive value of art objects is that they afford aesthetic experience, it is upon this foundation that an argument ought to be mounted as to why schooling needs the arts, specialised teachers, and all students deserve aesthetic education. Therefore, in this paper, I offer a defence of compulsory aesthetic education across the curriculum on the basis of the aesthetic experiences the arts afford, and the central role such experiences play in eudaimonia—the flourishing life.

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审美与幸福：繁荣的教育必须包括艺术

教育的重点是支持学生能够过上有意义的、自主的生活，并充满丰富的经验。艺术和审美教育对于如此繁荣的生活至关重要，因为它们提供了与人类核心功能能力相关的大胆、美丽、感人的敬畏、奇迹和崇高体验，努斯鲍姆将感官、想象力和思想标记为. 每个人都应该有机会学习艺术，欣赏和创造艺术，批评艺术，了解我们如何与社会文化联系在一起。没有艺术的生活是不可想象的，如果人们缺乏审美经验，他们的生活就会变得贫困，而不是“完全人性化”。鉴于艺术品的独特价值在于它们提供了审美体验，因此应该在此基础上就为什么学校教育需要艺术、专业教师以及所有学生都应该接受审美教育展开争论。因此，在本文中，我基于艺术所提供的审美体验，以及这些体验在幸福生活中所起的核心作用，为整个课程的义务审美教育进行辩护。