The Philosophy of the Beautiful: Outlines of the history of aestheticsC. Scribner, 1891 |
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The Philosophy of the Beautiful, Being Outlines of the History of Aesthetics ... William Angus Knight Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absolute Beauty æsthetic Aesthetik affirms amongst analysis Architecture Aristotle artist association Beau Beauty consists Beauty in Nature century chapter charm colour criticism deals Descartes Diderot Ding-an-sich discerned discussion distinct divine doctrine emotion Encyclopédie essay essence Esthetics ethical Euphranor exists expression faculty French gives Grammar of Ornament Greek harmony Hegel human idea of Beauty ideal idealistic imagination imitation individual intellectual judgment Kant laws Lectures Leon Battista Alberti line of Beauty literature Lucretius metaphysical mind moral Neoplatonic objects original ornament painter Painting perceive perception perfect Phidias philosophy picturesque Plato Plotinus poet poetry principle of Beauty Professor proportion published qualities race recognised refers relation says Schelling Sculpture sense of Beauty Solger soul sphere spirit subject of Beauty sublime symmetry taste teaching theory things thinks thought tion treatise true truth ugly unity universal Uvedale Price variety Vitruvius writer wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 176 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Seite 291 - The statement of details is meant to illustrate the working of general laws, and the development of principles; while the historical evolution of the subject dealt with is kept in view, along with its philosophical significance.
Seite 271 - We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
Seite 25 - ... beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which without diminution, and without increase, or any change, is imparted to the evergrowing and perishing beauties of all other things.
Seite iii - That did love Beauty only, (Beauty seen In all varieties of mould and mind) And Knowledge for its beauty ; or if Good, Good only for its beauty, seeing not That Beauty, Good, and Knowledge, are three sisters That doat upon each other, friends to man, Living together under the same roof, And never can be sunder'd without tears.
Seite 223 - Niccola's peculiar praise is this, — that, in practice at least, if not in theory, he first established the principle that the study of nature, corrected by the ideal of the antique, and animated by the spirit of Christianity, personal and social, can alone lead to excellence in art : — each of the three elements of human nature — Matter, Mind, and Spirit — being thus brought into union and cooperation in the service of God, in due relative harmony and subordination.
Seite 176 - For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparatively small : beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent ; beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves the right line, and when it deviates it often makes a strong deviation : beauty should not be obscure ; the great ought to be dark and gloomy: beauty should be light and delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even...
Seite 243 - the production of some permanent object or passing action which is fitted not only to supply an active enjoyment to the producer, but to convey a pleasurable impression to a number of spectators or listeners, quite apart from any personal advantage to be derived from it.