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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... Sense. This susceptibility compares with our susceptibility to Beauty (as opposed to deformity) in external things. In like manner, it furnishes a direct impulse to good conduct and proves the coincidence between virtue and happiness ...
... beauty in the sphere of art in order to exemplify the workings of the faculty that determines the value of human actions, it is through his explication of the moral sense that we gain insight into his aesthetic theory. Both faculties ...
... Sense. The Shapes, Motions, Colours, and Proportions of these latter being presented to our Eye; there necessarily results a Beauty or Deformity, according to the different Measure, Arrangement and Disposition of their several Parts. So ...
... Beauty and Comeliness, between one Heart and another, one Turn of Affection ... Sense. THERE is in reality no rational Creature whatsoever, who knows not ... Sense, So that if there be any further meaning in this Sense of Right and Wrong ...
... Sense, as without Admiration in the Things of which it has any knowl-edg. Coming therefore to a Capacity of seeing and admiring in this new way, it must needs find a Beauty and a Deformity as well in Actions, Minds, and Tempers, as in ...
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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 |