Excerpt from Aesthetics; Dreams; Association of Ideas A very brief survey of what has been written under the name sesthet ics is sufficient to show that it in cludes, as its first and foremost prob lem, the determination of the nature and laws of. Beauty, including along with the Beautiful, in its narrower signification, its kindred subjects, the Sublime and the Ludicrous. To discover 'what it is in things which makes them beautiful or ugly, sublime or ludicrous, is one con stant factor in the aesthetic problem. Intimately ...
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Excerpt from Aesthetics; Dreams; Association of Ideas A very brief survey of what has been written under the name sesthet ics is sufficient to show that it in cludes, as its first and foremost prob lem, the determination of the nature and laws of. Beauty, including along with the Beautiful, in its narrower signification, its kindred subjects, the Sublime and the Ludicrous. To discover 'what it is in things which makes them beautiful or ugly, sublime or ludicrous, is one con stant factor in the aesthetic problem. Intimately connected with this oh jective question is the subjective and psychological inquiry into the nature of the feelings and ideas that have beauty for their object. Further, it will be found that all attempts to construct a complete aesthetic theory aim at determining the highest ends of the Fine Arts (which obviously con cern themselves largely, if not exclu sively, with the Beautiful), and at marking out the distinctions and tracing the dependencies of natural and artistic beauty. All this part of the field of testhetic inquiry seems fairly agreed on, and it is only when we approach other sides of the Fine Arts that the precise scope of the science appears obscure. But while there is this measure of agreement as to the proper subject matter of as[esth etics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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