The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts: Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory EssayHegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts: Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy
[77] Mechanical, without origination.
[78] "_Nüancen._" Context seems to forbid referring it to colour. I
suspect it of meaning character of outline.
[79] "_Erschüttern._"
[80] "_Raisonnirende_;" a term of disparagement in Hegel, applied to
proofs, _pro_ and _con_, which do not rest on a thorough conception of
the fundamental nature of what is being discussed.
[81] "_Raisonnement._"
[82] "Formal" means here as usual, empty, or general; _i.e._ not taking
account of varieties in the matter to which it is applied.
[83] "_Befangensein._"
[84] "_Theoretisch._" I have no doubt that it has here the meaning
of [Greek: Theôrein] without a trace of allusion to "theory." It is
opposed to "destructive," or "appetitive."
[85] The moral.
[86] Person, _i.e._, here, audience or spectator.
[87] "_Kernspruch._"
[88] "Contingent" means, not so much "what may or may not exist," as
the trivial, which makes no difference whether it exists or not.
[89] "_In ihm selbst gebrochenes._" I do not suppose there is an
allusion to the words I use.
[90] "_Sittlichkeit_" almost = morality in the English sense. It means
the habit of virtue, without the reflective aspiration after goodness
as an ideal.
[91] "_Moralität_" almost = conscientiousness or scrupulosity. The
above sentence is hardly true with the English word "moral."
[92] "_Für sich_," is often used where there is no notion of
development, and seems very like "an sich."
[93] "_Gemüth._"
[94] As _e.g._ if we suppose that an act done at the bidding of natural
affection cannot also be a fulfilment of the command of duty. The
"reconciliation" would be in supposing the natural affection, _e.g._
for parents, to operate as a moral motive, being transformed by a
recognition of its sacred or spiritual character.
[95] "_An und für sich._"
[96] "_An und für sich Wahre._"
[97] "_Allgemeine Bildung._"
[98] "_Vorstellung._"
[99] See Pref. Essay, p. xix.
[100] Or conscientiousness--what was above described as the moralistic
view.
[101] "_An sich._"
[102] "_An und für sich wahrem und wirklichem._"
[103] See p. 68, _supra_.
[104] "_Der mensch wie er geht und steht._"
[105] "_An und für sich._"
[106] "_Zweck-mässigkeit._"
[107] _i.e._ in any means which we adopt in order to effect an end
which we have distinctly before us as an idea. A knife does not include
cutting, nor a spade digging, although their construction is relative
to these ends. But a man does include living, _i.e._ he is not a man if
he ceases to live.
[108] "_Für sich._"
[109] "_An und für sich._"
[110] By Kant.
[111] "_Unbefangenheit._"
[112] On Goethe's discoveries in morphology and errors in optics, see
Helmholtz's "Popular Lectures," series i., lecture ii.; but compare
Schopenhauer, "Werke," vol. i., "_Ueber das Sehn und die Farben_."
[113] Compare Browning's "Luria:"--
"A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one."
[114] Or "Of the moral, etc., man."
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