The Philosophy of Fine Art. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Название The Philosophy of Fine Art
Автор произведения Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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of art with it in the present context37, we have not as yet the idea of the beautiful before us in a scientific form: what we have and are able to deal with are simply the phases and aspects of the same as we find them in the various conceptions of beauty and art of our everyday conscious life, or as they have been conceived by previous writers. Having made our start at this point we shall then at a later stage pass on to the more fundamental investigation of those views, in order thereby to secure the advantage of, in the first instance, working out a general idea of our subject-matter no less than obtaining a provisional acquaintance, as a result of our necessarily brief criticism, with its higher principles, which will occupy our thoughts in the inquiry which follows38. By this means our final introduction39 will supply a sort of overture to the exposition of the subject itself, and will aim at being a general concatenation and direction of our reflection on the real subject-matter before us. What in the first instance is known to us under current conceptions of a work of art may be subsumed under the three following determinations:

      (1) A work of art is no product of Nature. It is brought into being through the agency of man.

      (3) It contains an end bound up with it.