This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... II. INTUITION AND EXPRESSION 1 The four grades of spiritual activity--Intuition and conceptual knowledge--The intuitive consciousness--The limits of intuitive knowledge--Identifications of intuition and expression--Art as expression: content and form--Language as expression; the reality of words- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... II. INTUITION AND EXPRESSION 1 The four grades of spiritual activity--Intuition and conceptual knowledge--The intuitive consciousness--The limits of intuitive knowledge--Identifications of intuition and expression--Art as expression: content and form--Language as expression; the reality of words--Croce's use of the word intuition--The lyrical character of the pure intuition. The whole cycle of the philosophy of mind exhausts itself in the study of the four fundamental forms of human activity, the concepts of which we have seen slowly developing through the mazes of Croce's early speculations: the aesthetic, the logic, the economic and the ethic; of the distinction and the unity of aesthetic and logic in the theoretical activity, or knowledge, and of economic and ethic in the practical activity, or action; and finally of the relations between the theoretical and the practical, or knowledge and action. This may be said to be the positive aspect of Croce's philosophy: the negative aspect consists in the criticism and exclusion of any other form of activity from the system of the human spirit, and of that which is not the spirit, or nature, from the system of reality. 1 This chapter and the following two are founded especially on the Estetica, pp. 1-171; the essay on L'intuizione pura e il caratlere lirico dell' arte, in Problemi, pp. 1-30; and the Breviario, in Nuovi Saggi, pp. 1-91. To the four forms or grades of spiritual activity, correspond four philosophical sciences: Esthetics, Logic, Economics, and Ethics. Each of them can be said to be the organum of the particular form of activity which it studies; the affirmation of that sphere of consciousness which is proper to it, and of its relations to the other forms. Each of them is...
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