ABSTRACT
Bergson’s “vital order” as well as the traditional notion of “organic form” ignores quantitative factors. This is one of the main reasons why neither of these concepts can sufficiently complement discursive order or be an adequate concept of aesthetic evaluation. A non-quantitative concept of order is of little use in the aesthetic domain because it fails to account for the evaluative aspect. The concept of aesthetic order that is presented here differs significantly from the concepts offered by the theories above, namely that it has quantitative as well as qualitative characteristics. Indeed, aesthetic order is quantitative; however, this does not entail a satisfying method for measuring it. The very ground of the quantitative aspect of aesthetic order is puzzling: how can any particular aesthetic order be measured if the set and its principle are inseparable? How can we differentiate between degrees of aesthetic order, if each object constitutes its own order?
