PHILOS 2H03 Lecture : Western Aesthetics
10 Jan 2012
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Lecture 1 western philosophical aesthetics: 4th century bce plato & aristotle, 3rd century ce pilonous, eighteenth century hume & kant, nineteenth century hegel, nietzsche, schopenhauer. Fine arts: the similarity of all the arts and crafts considered together a cook and a sculptor both make things. Their language did not even have to words that we to make a discrimination between the two: both were considered techne knowing how to make things (anything) art, skill, technique. The one with the art knows this way: painters, poets and masters of techne. Differences knowledge: art is a type of knowledge, and to be an artist is to be a master of this, romanticism our thoughts of art and beauty are stamped by this. Greeks did not have any of this they were completely indifferent to originality. They did not expect an artist to make something new, that no one had ever seen before.
