The Nature of ArtRoutledge, 7. sep. 2006 - 212 strani Although various aesthetic themes have preoccupied many major philosophers, from Plato to Goodman, the central questions of the philosophy of art have remained ill-defined. This book gives a concise and systematic account of the leading philosophical ideas about art and aesthetics from ancient times to the present day, and goes on to propose a new theory of aesthetic satisfaction and artistic abilities. |
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II Theories that Assign a Direct Practical Furpose to Art | 21 |
III Perfection and the Play of Cognition | 40 |
IV Art as the Experience of Metaphysical Truth | 58 |
V Art as Language | 77 |
VI Art and Metaphor | 96 |
VII Virtues and Indirect Pleasures | 116 |
VIII The Aim Behind Perception | 134 |
IX Aesthetic Satisfaction | 152 |
X Art and Artistic Abilities | 171 |
Bibliography | 190 |
Index | 194 |
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actions aesthetic enjoyment aesthetic experience aesthetic pleasure aesthetic satisfaction aesthetically enjoyable aestheticism appear apprehending Aristotle Aristotle’s art’s artefact artistic abilities attain believes capacity cognitive enjoyment cognitive faculties cognitive virtues concept conflict Critique of Judgement Croce definite difficulty distinction Dufrenne empathic enjoy example exercising experience of beauty experiential knowledge experiential understanding explain aesthetic explicit understanding expression feeling find first form of knowledge formal cause genuine Goodman Hegel ibid iconoclastic idea imagination influence intellectual intuition intuitive knowledge judgements Kant Kant’s kind knowledge by acquaintance Leibniz literal meaning merely meta metaphorical truth moral nature Nicomachean Ethics notion object one’s particular perceiving perception perceptual experience perfection philistine philosophical phorical Plato pleasant Plotinus possible practical primary qualities problem produce purpose question recognize reflects regarding Schopenhauer secondary quality sensations sense sensory significance speaking specific theory theory of descriptions things thought true beauty utterance verbal words