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Often appears with: history and the writing of history · universality of beauty · plato · metaphysical reflection · logic, method, and demonstration · history of art · historical circumstances · beauty and taste · aesthetic appreciation
Usually: argument (1) · reflection (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
Hegel argues that older art-theory based on reflection has become outdated, while art history’s scholarship remains valuable by combining aesthetic appreciation with historical knowledge to illuminate individual works.
thinking mind, attained at this time, on its side, a deeper self-knowledge in philosophy, and was thereby directly impelled to understand the essence of art, too, in a profounder fashion. Thus, then, even judging by the phases of this more general evolution of ideas, the theoretical mode of reflection upon art which we were considering has become antiquated alike in its principles and in its particulars. Only the *s…
He distinguishes scholarly, historically grounded reflection on art from purely theoretical attempts to derive beauty from itself, tracing the universalist demand back to Plato.
of the beautiful, but we ought not to abide by the fashion of Platonic ideas, which was purely abstract, and was the mere beginning of the philosophic study of beauty. 3. The philosophic conception of the beautiful, to indicate its true nature at least by anticipation, must contain, reconciled within it, the two extremes which have been mentioned, by combining metaphysical universality with the determinateness of re…