Essays, Aesthetical and Philosophical: Including the Dissertation on the "Connexion Between the Animal and Spiritual in Man,"G. Bell and Sons, 1900 - 435 pages |
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... means , and it is only free when liberated from all other considerations ; it rises up to truth , which is its only real object , and can alone fully satisfy it . Art in like manner is alone truly art when it is free and independent ...
... means , and it is only free when liberated from all other considerations ; it rises up to truth , which is its only real object , and can alone fully satisfy it . Art in like manner is alone truly art when it is free and independent ...
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... constitute beauty . A noted ancient theory makes beauty consist in the perfect suitableness of means to their end . In this case the beautiful is not the useful , it is the suitable ; and B 2 ESTHETICAL LETTERS AND ESSAYS . 3.
... constitute beauty . A noted ancient theory makes beauty consist in the perfect suitableness of means to their end . In this case the beautiful is not the useful , it is the suitable ; and B 2 ESTHETICAL LETTERS AND ESSAYS . 3.
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... means by which the contradictions can be re- moved between mind considered in its abstract and absolute exist- ence and nature constituting the world of sense , bringing back these two factors to unity . Kant was the first who felt the ...
... means by which the contradictions can be re- moved between mind considered in its abstract and absolute exist- ence and nature constituting the world of sense , bringing back these two factors to unity . Kant was the first who felt the ...
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... means , the idea and the object , mentally penetrate each other completely . The particular in itself , whether it be opposed to itself or to what is general , is something accidental . But here what may be considered as an accidental ...
... means , the idea and the object , mentally penetrate each other completely . The particular in itself , whether it be opposed to itself or to what is general , is something accidental . But here what may be considered as an accidental ...
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... means to describe by it the free play of the forces , activity according to nature , which is at once a joy and a happiness ; he reminds us of the life of Olympus , and adds : " Man is only quite a man when he plays . " Personality is ...
... means to describe by it the free play of the forces , activity according to nature , which is at once a joy and a happiness ; he reminds us of the life of Olympus , and adds : " Man is only quite a man when he plays . " Personality is ...
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