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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... Art. VIII.--THE ESTHETIC IN RELIGION. The Greeks used the term aesthetics to denote everything relating to sensuous perception. In his Transcendental Esthetics Kant retains this meaning. Many German writers limit its meaning to fine arts and a limited class of perceptions and sensations arising out of the beautiful. So Baumgarten tells us, that as truth is the end of pure knowledge, and good the end of the will, so beauty must be the aim of all sensuous knowledge. The Question Stated Philosophically. We may approach this stndy by two methods. The one is the metaphysical, the other, the scientific. The first, reasons from cause to effect, and speculation centers about the object admired. The second, inquires rather in what the beautiful consists, and whether it is objective, subjective, or both. Is beauty inherent in material forms, or is it above matter, and if so, how is it revealed to the beholder? What principle beautifies matter? Leveque holds that it is vivified by some force. Plato says, beauty grows from self-existent forms superinduced upon matter. Reid holds that divine energy invests matter with beautiful aspects. Leveque is apparently pantheistic; Plato and Hegel materialistic; and Reid more nearly theistic, along with Ruskin and Shaftesbury. We are admonished to keep in mind two aspects of art. First, art as a reproduction of nature. Second, art as the conscious product of aesthetic intuition. The absolute reveals itself to human intelligence by an appeal to our sense of the beautiful, while in art the mind seeks to imitate the beautiful in nature, and thus gropes after the thoughts of the absolute. Thus do we find a basis for the metaphysical in aesthetics. Scientifically speaking, the subject and object in human cognition...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154274035 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154274039 |
| Weight | 2.16 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.46 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 746 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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