The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts: Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
Georg Hegel · en
[35] That is, not a caprice of nature or art, but the perfection of the
object _after its kind_.
[36] "_Individualität._"
[37] "_Helldunkel._"
[38] "_Drama_," Gr. [Greek: drama] = _Handlung_, "action."
[39] "_Erscheinung._"
[40] "_Bestimmung._"
[41] "_Bestimmend._"
[42] "_Begeistet wird_"--"Is spiritualized."
[43] I have no doubt he means Shakespeare, who was unpopular in Germany
before Goethe's time. _Vide_ "Wilhelm Meister."
[44] "_Das Wahre sehen nicht die einzelnen_," etc.
[45] The exhibition of particulars as contained in the principle, and
of the principle as contained in particulars.
[46] "_Machen._"
[47] "_Nach-machen._"
[48] See Appendix to Eng. Trans. of Scherer, ii. 347. Goethe's "Götz
von Berlichingen" appeared in 1773; Schiller's "Raüber" in 1781.
[49] The "Iphigenie" was completed in Goethe's thirty-eighth year,
fourteen years later than "Götz." The bulk of his great works are of
the same date as the "Iphigenie," or later. See Scherer, ii. 152,
and Appendix, 1. c. Schiller's "Wallenstein" was completed after his
thirty-fifth year.
[50] Free from irrelevancies.
[51] _i.e._ it requires a definite or determinate answer, depending on
a number of ideas which cannot be explained in an introduction.
[52] _i.e._ considered generally, apart from the wishes and, perhaps,
selfish aims of individual artists.
[53] "_Fursichsein._"
[54] Reality derivative from his own reality.
[55] He means as in attitude, bearing, gentle movement, etc.
[56] "_Bildung._"
[57] "_Bedurfniss zur Kunst._"
[58] _i.e._ you cannot describe it or picture it definitely, like a
thing with attributes, although you feel it in yourself.
[59] _i.e._ you may be afraid of anything; the fact that you are afraid
does not in itself indicate what you are afraid of.
[60] My private feeling is compared to a small circle, in which
morality, justice, etc., may _be_, but have not room to show their
nature. Feeling allows of no definition.
[61] _All_ its positive aspects or relations, age, phase, artist's
history, etc.
[62] Its sensuous aspect has no independent warrant or justification,
as that, for example, of an animal has in its own separate life. So it
must simply be such as is enough to appeal to man's mind, _e.g._ mere
surface painting.
[63] _i.e._ person.
[64] Nothing can be tasted which is not dissolved in a liquid.
[65] "_Anschauungen._"
[66] Abstract forms, which are to reality as a diagram to a picture.
[67] Lit. "figure," _Gestalt_.
[68] "_Handgriffen._"
[69] "_Eines geistreichen._"
[70] General, abstract, as much applicable to one thing as to another.
[71] "_Heuchelei_," lit. "hypocrisy."
[72] "_Kunststück._"
[73] _i.e._ _mere_ copying, devoting one's-self to the one-sided
purpose of making a thing over again, without putting any life or
meaning into it.
[74] Which says that the business of art is to imitate.
[75] Of imitation.
[76] "_Phantastischen._" "Fantastic" means "odd or wild." Hegel only
means "original," "creative."