The Metaphysics Of Beauty

Author : Nick Zangwill
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501711350

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The Metaphysics of Beauty by Nick Zangwill Pdf

In chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Nick Zangwill investigates the nature of beauty as we conceive it, and as it is in itself. The notion of beauty is currently attracting increased interest, particularly in philosophical aesthetics and in discussions of our experiences and judgments about art. In The Metaphysics of Beauty, Zangwill argues that it is essential to beauty that it depends on the ordinary features of things. He uses this principle to defend the notion of the aesthetic, to call for a version of aesthetic formalism, and to reconsider the reality of beauty. The Metaphysics of Beauty brings beauty to the center of intellectual consciousness in a manner informed by contemporary metaphysics and engages with beauty as an enduring object of human thought and experience.

Author : Francis J. Kovach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0806113634

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Philosophy of Beauty by Francis J. Kovach Pdf

There has long been a need for a work on the philosophy of beauty treating fundamental problems against the background of the history of aesthetics--ancient and medieval as well as modern and contemporary. This book answers that need with the comprehensive presentations of an objectivist philosophy of beauty to balance the currently popular aesthetic subjectivism. It includes a synopsis of views and theories expressed on the various questions about beauty by philosophers down through the ages. Kovach's acquaintance with relevant literature from the ancient Greeks to twentieth-century authors is staggering. He draws on the observations of thinkers from ancient times--Plato, Aristotle. Philo of Alexandria, Cicero, Plotinus, Augustine, Dionysius the Areopagite, and others; from medieval times--Alexander of Hales, John of la Rochelle, Thomas of York, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Dionysius the Carthusian, and others; from modern times--Descartes, J. Addison, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoi, Santayana, Croce, Maritain, Sartre, H. Read, Thomas Munro, and others. With delicate precision Kovach systematically discusses the philosophy of beauty and the problems it raises. Whether or not one agrees with Kovach's objectivist position, no one in the field can afford to be without this book.

Author : Hugh Bredin,Liberato Santoro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050708190

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Philosophies of Art and Beauty by Hugh Bredin,Liberato Santoro Pdf

A thorough historical survey of philosophies of the arts.

Author : Albert Hofstadter,Richard Kuhns
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226348117

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Philosophies of Art and Beauty by Albert Hofstadter,Richard Kuhns Pdf

This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions, it will be an essential sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.

Author : G. Alwyn Zittrauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 0975949306

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An Epic of Metaphysical Existence by G. Alwyn Zittrauer Pdf

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199229758

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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton Pdf

"First published in hardback as Beauty, 2009"--T.p. verso.

Author : Christopher Scott Sevier
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739184257

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Aquinas on Beauty by Christopher Scott Sevier Pdf

Aquinas on Beauty explores the nature and role of beauty in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with a standard definition of beauty provided by Aquinas, it explores each of the components of that definition. The result is a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s formal view on the subject, supplemented by an exploration into Aquinas’s commentary on Dionysius’s Divine Names, including a comparison of his views with those of both Dionysius and those of Aquinas’s mentor, Albert the Great. The book also highlights the tight connection in Aquinas’s thought between aesthetics and ethics, and illustrates how Aquinas preserves what is best about aesthetic traditions preceding him, and anticipates what is best about aesthetic traditions that would follow, marrying objective and subjective aesthetic intuitions and charting a kind of via media between the common extremes.

Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199279454

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The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics by Jerrold Levinson Pdf

'The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics' has assembled 48 brand-new essays, making this a comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field.

Author : Ronald Moore
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460401408

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Natural Beauty by Ronald Moore Pdf

Natural Beauty was selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Title list for 2008! Natural Beauty presents a bold new philosophical account of the principles involved in making aesthetic judgments about natural objects. It surveys historical and modern accounts of natural beauty and weaves elements derived from those accounts into a “syncretic theory” that centers on key features of aesthetic experience—specifically, features that sustain and reward attention. In this way, Moore’s theory sets itself apart from both the purely cognitive and the purely emotive approaches that have dominated natural aesthetics until now. Natural Beauty shows why aesthetic appreciation of works of art and aesthetic appreciation of nature can be mutually reinforcing; that is, how they are cooperative rather than rival enterprises. Moore also makes a compelling case for how and why the experience of natural beauty can contribute to the larger project of living a good life.

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438477442

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Metaphysics of Goodness by Robert Cummings Neville Pdf

In Metaphysics of Goodness, Robert Cummings Neville extends Alfred North Whitehead's project of cultural studies, which was based on a new metaphysics that Whitehead developed in Adventures of Ideas. Neville's focus is value or goodness in many modes. The metaphysics treated in this book derive from the Platonic and Confucian traditions, with significant modifications of Whitehead, Peirce, Dewey, Confucius, Xunzi, and Zhou Dunyi. Part one develops a theory of form based on a metaphysics of harmony. Part two elaborates a theory of art based on a metaphysics of beauty. Part three sketches a theory of personhood based on a metaphysics of obligation. Part four discusses civilization in a systematic way based on a metaphysics of flourishing. Throughout the book, Neville elaborates a theory of interpretation that is inspired by Peirce, Dewey, and Xunzi but is not limited to their ideas. While the reasoning of the book is concise, it employs methodologies from many kinds of philosophy, art criticism, ethics, and cultural studies, and sees philosophy as needing to learn from all these disciplines.

Author : Martino Rossi Monti,Davor Pećnjak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527562004

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What is Beauty? A Multidisciplinary Approach to Aesthetic Experience by Martino Rossi Monti,Davor Pećnjak Pdf

Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behaviour? What does literature have to do with beauty? What are the limitations of neuroscientific approaches to beauty? Are the experience of beauty and the production of “art” confined to anatomically modern humans? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans at all? These are just some of the questions discussed in this volume. It gathers together authors from different areas of research, including philosophy, history of philosophy, history of ideas, cognitive biology, neuroscience, anthropology and paleoanthropology, in order to investigate some of the most debated aspects of the problem of beauty and aesthetic experience. The volume will appeal to both the general reader and the specialist in the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences.

Author : Margriet Hovens,Willem Muijs
Publisher : Gompel&Svacina
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789463712460

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On Beauty or solving the mind-body problem by Margriet Hovens,Willem Muijs Pdf

This book about Beauty and its deep philosophical meaning serves an ambitious goal. The two authors point to a possibility to transcend the philosophical duality between body and mind. The concept of Beauty is part of the Platonic trinity that also includes the concepts of the Good and the Truth. These are the three attibutes of the Spirit. The Spirit or divine Soul is a binary unity that contains the material and immaterial character of being. The question is a single source of the Spirit is thinkable, leads to a metaphysical speculation which also is the end of the book. The analysis of the concept of Beauty is echoed in two other concepts: the Good and the Truth. But on the level of natural physics, this analysis treats the structure of time-space and the deep structure of matter. Quantum physics, the behaviour of light and the laws of gravity and entropy find their place in this edifice which we call material reality. This knowledge of physics also contains the building blocks of a theory of mind. Mind and matter are inseparably built into each other. Physics and metaphysics imply each other on the level of a living, organic and inorganic reality. This book is written for everybody who looks for answers to the fundamental question of what life is: who and what are we as human beings; what could be the meaning of life and what is the structure of our reality? The essence of these writings is the question into the value of beauty, the value of human culture and the question how we are part of the wonderful order of nature. Philosophical and scientific jargon is explained in parts where it was inevitable to use.

Author : Celkyte Aiste Celkyte
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474461641

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Stoic Theory of Beauty by Celkyte Aiste Celkyte Pdf

Highlights the important contribution Stoic philosophy made to aestheticsShows that this is a largely unexplored area of interest to scholars of both ancient philosophy and aestheticsAnalyses material to show that there is a coherent and substantial attempt at systematic enquiry into aesthetic phenomenaDiscusses how Stoic ideas could enhance our understanding of ancient aesthetics and even contribute to contemporary aestheticsAistA A elkytA shows us that Stoic views about beauty were substantial and compelling. She examines the ways in which the Stoics used aesthetic vocabulary in their arguments to demonstrate that aesthetic concepts played an important role in their philosophy. A elkytA argues that understanding the Stoic's aesthetic views allows us to interpret their famous account of virtue more thoroughly. She also explores the place that Stoic aesthetics has within the broader ancient Greek and Roman tradition, highlighting the value of incorporating Stoic views in the discussions of aesthetic properties and values.

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739170489

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The Concept of the Beautiful by Agnes Heller Pdf

The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homogeneity of the conceptualization of that experience, or attempt at such a conceptualization in the era of modern philosophy. While the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful was permitted, and indeed celebrated, in the dominant ancient conception—for example, in the Symposium and Phaedrus of Plato—the need for homogenization in the later appropriation of Plato and in the Enlightenment period relegated the beautiful to the privileged domain of artworks. In her analysis Agnes Heller provides a unique and significant emphasis on the original 'life content' of the experience of the beautiful, which becomes lost in the modern system of the arts. This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with what Agnes Heller distinguishes between the 'warm' metaphysics of beauty and the 'cold' one—inspired by Plato's Janus-faced relationship to beauty—and ending with a fragmented yet hopeful vision propagated by Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, among others. In between these two historical parentheses—the metaphysical Plato on one hand and the post-metaphysical Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Adorno on the other hand—lay a plenitude of figures and intellectual developments, all of which contributed to the demise of the concept of the beautiful in the Western metaphysical tradition. The most important of these figures and developments are examined in this book.

Author : Elaine Scarry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400847358

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On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry Pdf

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.