The Arts in Mind: Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of LettersRuth HaCohen Routledge, 2017 M11 30 - 431 páginas Amajor shift in critical attitudes toward the arts took place in the eighteenth century. The fine arts were now looked upon as a group, divorced from the sciences and governed by their own rules. The century abounded with treatises that sought to establish the overriding principles that differentiate art from other walks of life as well as the principles that differentiate them from each other. This burst of scholarly activity resulted in the incorporation of aesthetics among the classic branches of philosophy, heralding the cognitive turn in epistemology. Among the writings that initiated this turn, none were more important than the British contribution. The Arts in Mind brings together an annotated selection of these key texts. A companion volume to the editors' Tuning the Mind, which analyzed this major shift in world view and its historical context, The Arts in Mind is the first representative sampling of what constitutes an important school of British thought. The texts are neither obscure nor forgotten, although most histories of eighteenth-century thought treat them in a partial or incomplete way. Here they are made available complete or through representative extracts together with an editor's introduction to each selection providing essential biographical and intellectual background. The treatises included are representative of the changed climate of opinion which entailed new issues such as those of perception, symbolic function, and the role of history and culture in shaping the world.> |
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... social affections, and to demonstrate the normal harmony between these and his self-regarding impulses. Shaftesbury was perhaps the first to transfer the center of ethical interest from the rational apprehension of either.
... perhaps a single Ode or Satire, an Oration or Panegyric® to its perfection. When they had so polish'd their Piece, and render'd it so natural and easy, that it seem'd only a lucky Flight, a Hit of Thought, or flowing Vein of Humour ...
... perhaps the Thing itself shou'd not be allow'd in Nature, the Imagination or Fancy of it must be allow'd to be from Nature alone. Nor can anything besides Art and strong Endeavour, with long Practice and Meditation, overcome such a ...
... perhaps you shou'd have been unmov'd, and have found no difference between this Form and any other; if first you had not been instructed? I HAVE hardly any Right, reply'd I, to plead this last Opinion, after what I have own'd just ...
... perhaps you have yet many Difficultys to get over, ere you can so far take part with Beauty, as to make this to be your Good. I HAVE no difficulty so great, said I, as not to be easily remov'd. My Inclinations lead me strongly this way ...
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Francis Hutcheson | |
Hildebrand Jacob | |
James Harris | |
Charles Avison | |
James Beattie | |
Daniel Webb | |
Thomas Twining | |
Adam Smith | |
from Of The Nature of that Imitation which Takes | |
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The Arts in Mind: Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters Ruth Katz,Ruth HaCohen Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
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The Arts in Mind: Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters Ruth Hacohen Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |