Reason, Morality, and Beauty

Reason, Morality, and Beauty PDF Author: Bindu Puri
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Reason, Morality, and Beauty

Reason, Morality, and Beauty PDF Author: Bindu Puri
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The Critique of Judgment (Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment & Theory of the Teleological Judgment)

The Critique of Judgment (Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment & Theory of the Teleological Judgment) PDF Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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The Critique of Judgment, also translated as the Critique of the Power of Judgment and more commonly referred to as the third Critique, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment completes the Critical project begun in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason (the first and second Critiques, respectively). The book is divided into two main sections: the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of Teleological Judgment, and also includes a large overview of the entirety of Kant's Critical system, arranged in its final form. The end result of Kant's Critical Project is that there are certain fundamental antinomies in human Reason, most particularly that there is a complete inability to favor on the one hand the argument that all behavior and thought is determined by external causes, and on the other that there is an actual "spontaneous" causal principle at work in human behavior. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher, who, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "the central figure of modern philosophy." Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our understanding, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth.

Art, Emotion and Ethics

Art, Emotion and Ethics PDF Author: Berys Gaut
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199263213
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Can a good work of art be evil? 'Art, Ethics, and Emotion' explores this issue, arguing that artworks are always aesthetically flawed insofar as they have a moral defect that is aesthetically relevant. This book will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the relation of art to morality.

Kant's Theory of Freedom

Kant's Theory of Freedom PDF Author: Henry E. Allison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521387088
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes the role it plays in his moral philosophy and psychology and considers critical literature on the subject.

Aquinas on Beauty

Aquinas on Beauty PDF Author: Christopher Scott Sevier
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739184253
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Aquinas on Beauty explores the nature and role of beauty in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with a standard definition of beauty provided by Aquinas, it explores each of the components of that definition. The result is a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s formal view on the subject, supplemented by an exploration into Aquinas’s commentary on Dionysius’s Divine Names, including a comparison of his views with those of both Dionysius and those of Aquinas’s mentor, Albert the Great. The book also highlights the tight connection in Aquinas’s thought between aesthetics and ethics, and illustrates how Aquinas preserves what is best about aesthetic traditions preceding him, and anticipates what is best about aesthetic traditions that would follow, marrying objective and subjective aesthetic intuitions and charting a kind of via media between the common extremes.

The Aesthetic Expression of Moral Character

The Aesthetic Expression of Moral Character PDF Author: Levno von Plato
Publisher: Brill Mentis
ISBN: 9783957431066
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Can a person be morally beautiful? Can a character trait, such as honesty, be beautiful and sneakiness ugly or disgusting? Or are such expressions merely metaphorical? Talk of moral beauty has been commonplace since antiquity; and especially 18th-century philosophers used the notion. Yet, a literal meaning quickly leads to Moral judgements based on mere physical appearance, as physiognomists such as Lavater have endorsed. This book assesses influential 18th-century theories of moral beauty and proposes two conditions for a safe literal conception of moral beauty that not only helps justify many moral judgements based on aesthetic Quality but also shows how beauty and moral virtue can be based on the same principles. First, we need an account of why moral beauty and non-moral physical beauty are distinct kinds of beauty; and second, we need an account of how moral beauty can be expressive of moral virtue without identifying the one with the other. The reasons why Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, and Reid only meet the first condition and why Kant and Schiller meet both conditions are extremely illuminating for current debates on the interactions between aesthetics and moral theory.

Essay on Human Reason: On the Principle of Identity and Difference

Essay on Human Reason: On the Principle of Identity and Difference PDF Author: Nikola Stojkoski
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622733797
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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The nature of human reason is one of the thorniest of mysteries in philosophy. The reason appears in many specific forms within general areas such as cognition, thinking, experiencing beauty, and moral judgment. These forms are “perfectly” known in philosophy, yet an unknown pattern has been noticed which shows us that they are all a variation of the same theme: truth is an identity relation between the “thought” and “reality”; justice is an identity relation between the given and the deserved; beauty is an identity relation as rhyme is an identity relation between the final sounds of words; rhythm is an identity relation between time intervals; symmetry is an identity relation between two halves; proportion is an identity relation between two ratios; anaphora is an identity relation between the initial words. Particular things are identities in themselves and universals are identities between particulars. One idea associates another idea identical to it; an analogy is an identity between relations; induction is an identification between the known and unknown instances; and all the logic rests on the law of identity. What is common for all of them is the nature of reason itself.

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace PDF Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674903463
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new theory of art. He demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and art and the connections that hold between art, social institutions, and art history.

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime PDF Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520240782
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Small, beautiful, classic of philosophy, with new cover.

Kant on Beauty and Biology

Kant on Beauty and Biology PDF Author: Rachel Zuckert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521865891
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 9

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A wide-ranging and original interpretation of Kant's Critique of Judgment.