Design as Philosophical Category
Journal: Manuscript
Year: 2020

The study aims to determine essential nature of the philosophical category “design”. The author suggests that design can be considered as an aesthetical category; however, it contains the meanings which are not defined by the conventional number of aesthetical categories. Scientific novelty of the research lies in demarcating the category “design” from the categories “art” and “the aesthetical” with respect to: 1) functional difference; 2) difference in origin; 3) difference in semiotics. The re