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Often appears with: plato · philosophy of art · metaphysical reflection · logic, method, and demonstration · history and the writing of history
Usually: argument (1) · censure (1) · skepticism (1)
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…