PHILOSOPHIES OF ART AND BEAUTY (G90)

Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger

Table of Contents

Edited by Albert Hofstadter & Richard Kuhns

Introduction

PLATO

The Arts And Measure (Selections from Statesman)

Imitative Art: Definition And Criticism (Selections from The Republic, Sophist, Laws)

Artistic Inspiration (Selections from Ion, Phaedrus)

THe Love Of Beauty (Selections from Symposium}

ARISTOTLE

What Is Art? (Selections from Metaphysics. Nicomachean Ethics)

Coming-To-Be And Artistic Production: Nature And Art

(Selections from Parts of Animals, Physics, and Metaphysics)

Standard Of Artistic Goodness (Selections from Nicomachean Ethics)

Beauty (Selections from Metaphysics, Rhetoric)

The Imitative Art Of Poetry (Selections from Poetics, Rhetoric)

Theory Of Music (Selections from Politics)

PLOTINUS

Ennead I, Sixth Tractate: Beauty

Ennead V, Eighth Tractate: On the Intellectual Beauty

Selections from Ennead VI, Seventh Tractate: Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms

Selections from Ennead III, Eighth Tractate: Nature, Contemplation, and the One

AUGUSTINE

Selections from De Ordine

Selections from De Musica

Marsilio FICINO

Selections from Commentary on Plato's Symposium

SHAFTESBURY

Selections from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times . . .

Selections from Second Characters or the Language of Forms

Immanuel KANT

Selections from Critique of Judgment

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von S C H E L L I N G

Selections from System of Transcendental Idealism

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich H E G E L

Selections from The Philosophy of Fine Art

Arthur SCHOPENHAUER

Selections from The World as Will and Idea

Friedrich NIETZSCHE

Selections from The Birth of Tragedy

Benedetto CROCE

Selections from "Aesthetics" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Fourteenth Edition)

John DEWEY

Selections from Art as Experience

Martin HEIDEGGER

The Origin of the Work of Art

Thanks to the contributor:
John Peterson

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