Stone Implements, Sense of Form and the Origin of Aesthetic Consciousness

One of the prerequisites for producing stone implements is the humans’ sense of form in which the seeds of aesthetic consciousness are to sprout. For we used to take the production of stone implements as the simple and primitive labor, the genetic research of aesthetics often attempts to search for the evidence of such sense from the regular shapes of these stone implements, instead of from the prerequisites for producing them. This leads us not only to the illusion that we see only thing but men, but also to the deviation from main point of such study. And the urgent business of genetic research is not to define the starting point of its subject, but to explore its necessary conditions.