On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:34 PM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Probably the best summary on the internet is the Stanford enclyclopedia of > art. > See topic: Hegel's Aesthetics > > Hegel limits artistic beauty to man-made...as expression of the Absolute > spiritual freedom in sensuous form. . Needless to say, his elegant logic > and > lucid ideas are compelling (in translation). a Penguin Classic translation > by > Georg Wilheim, 1994, is pretty good and clear. > wc > > > Did Hegel prefer urban environments where opportunities to see nature in all its glory and subtlety are more limited? Shouldn't an appreciation for beauty stem from an appreciation of nature?
