Concept
Outline of aesthetics
Overview
overview of and topical guide to aesthetics
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.
An object is _monstrous_ if by its size it destroys the purpose which constitutes the concept of it. But the mere presentation of a concept is called _colossal_, which is almost too great for any presentation (bordering on the relatively monstrous); because the purpose of the presentation of a concept is made harder [to realise] by the intuition of the object being almost too great for our faculty of…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
States what Outline of aesthetics is; the author is tied to Outline of aesthetics in the knowledge graph.
Inasmuch, however, as it is the function of art to represent the Idea to immediate vision in sensuous shape and not in the form of thought and pure spirituality in the strict sense, and inasmuch as the value and intrinsic worth of this presentment consists in the correspondence and unity of the two aspects, that is the Idea and its sensuous shape, the supreme level and excellence of art and the reality, which is…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
The author is tied to Outline of aesthetics in the knowledge graph.
With this subjective side of æsthetic contemplation, there must always appear as its necessary correlative the objective side, the intuitive comprehension of the Platonic Idea. But before we turn to the closer consideration of this, and to the achievements of art in relation to it, it is better that we should pause for a little at the subjective side of æsthetic pleasure, in order to complete our treatment of this…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
The author is tied to Outline of aesthetics in the knowledge graph.
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- Arthur Danto
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Nelson Goodman
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy of music
- Philosophy
- Creativity
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Immanuel Kant
- John Dewey
- Judgement
- Adam Smith
- George Santayana
- Painting
- Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
- Mathematical beauty
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Modernism
- Clive Bell
- Aesthetic taste
- Augustine of Hippo
- Architecture
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Theodor Lipps
- Irving Singer
- Cool (aesthetic)
- Ecstasy (philosophy)
- Joseph Margolis
- Humour
- Style (visual arts)
- Camp (style)
- Aesthetic emotions
- Entertainment
- Eroticism
- History of painting
- Plastic surgery
- Aesthetics of music
- Art manifesto
- David Prall
- Gastronomy
- Iki (aesthetics)
- Itutu
- Mathematics and art
- Recreation
- Stephen Pepper
- Aesthetic medicine
- African aesthetic