My comments re Hegel on art restate what Hegel said, not what Aristotle or Nietzsche said.
Hegel's argument is that although nature may be beautiful, that kind of beauty is not the beauty of 'fine' arts because nature does not have consciousness (so says Hegel) and beauty or aesthetics in the fine arts requires, says Hegel, a man-made object that is consciously aimed at expressing the highest and most significant idea in sensuous form, again, says Hegel. The point is to explicate what Hegel said about aesthetics. To compare and contrast his views to others is a different undertaking. One can go on all day quoting one author on a given topic and then a string of others who said something else on the same topic. Ho-hum. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, July 6, 2012 3:24:17 AM Subject: Re: Hegel On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Shouldn't an appreciation for beauty stem from an appreciation of > nature? > No. > > > - Art takes nature as its model. Aristotle <http://quote.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?authid=212>
