Shouldn't an appreciation for beauty stem from an appreciation of nature? No. -----Original Message----- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jul 1, 2012 6:50 pm Subject: Re: Hegel
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?
