The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts: Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay — Georg Hegel — John Shaqi
The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts: Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
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[152] It is the essence of mind or thought not to have its parts
outside one another. The so-called terms of a judgment are a good
instance of parts in thought which are inward to each other.
[153] Compare Browning's "Old Pictures in Florence."
[154] _i.e._ in the form of feeling and imagination--not reflected upon.
[155] Subject, _i.e._ conscious individual person.
[156] "_Innerlichkeit_," lit. "inwardness."
[157] Taken, considered as or determined to be negative.
[158] "Inward," again, does not mean merely inside our heads, but
having the character of spirit in that its parts are not external to
one another. A judgment is thus "inward."
[159] _i.e._ does not keep up a distinction between percipient and
object, as between things in space. Goodness, nobleness, etc., are not
felt to be other than or outside the mind.
[160] The romantic.
[161] _i.e._ species, modifications naturally arising out of a
principle.
[162] Thus _e.g._ Sculpture is _the_ art which corresponds _par
excellence_ to the general type called Classical Art; but there is _a_
Symbolic kind of sculpture, and I suppose _a_ Romantic or modern kind
of sculpture, although neither of these types are exactly fitted to the
capabilities of Sculpture.
[163] Architecture as relative to the purposes of life and of religion.
See below, p. 162.
[164] "_Die schöne Architectur._"
[165] In the sense "self-complete," "not primarily regarded as
explained by anything outside," like a machine or an animal contrasted
with a wheel or a limb, which latter are finite, because they demand
explanation and supplementation from without, _i.e._ necessarily draw
attention to their own limit.
[166] _i.e._ shape taken simply as an object filling space.
[167] The terms used in the text explain themselves if we compare,
_e.g._, a Teniers with a Greek statue, or again, say, a Turner with the
same. "Subjectivity" means that the work of art appeals to our ordinary
feelings, experiences, etc. Music and poetry are still stronger cases
than painting, according to the theory. Poetry especially can deal with
_everything_.
[168] The unity of the individuals forming a church or nation is not
visible, but exists in common sentiments, purposes, etc., and in the
recognition of their community.
[169] An expression constantly applied to consciousness, because it can
look at itself. _Cf._:--
"'Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?'
'No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself
But by reflection, by some other things.'"
_Julius Cæsar._