Sulzer has remarked that the stage has arisen from an irresistible longing for the new and extraordinary. Man, oppressed by divided cares, and satiated with sensual pleasure, felt an emptiness or want. Man, neither altogether satisfied with the senses, nor forever capable of thought, wanted a middle state, a bridge between the two states, bringing them into harmony. Beauty and aesthetics supplied that for him. But a good lawgiver is not satisfied with discovering the bent of his people— he turns it to account as an instrument for higher use; and hence he chose the stage, as giving nourishment to ...
For there is no art where there is no style, and no style where there is no unity, and unity is of the individual.
Weimar Classicism
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Category: Philosophy
Category: Philosophy
Absolute , A conception, or, more strictly, in Kantian language, an idea of the pure reason, embracing the fundamental and necessary yet free ground of all things. Antinomy . The conflict of the laws of pure reason; as in the question of free will and necessity. Autonomy (autonomous). Governing itself by the spontaneous action of free will. Aesthetics . The science of beauty; as ethics of duty. Cognition (knowledge; Germanice, "Erkenntniss") is either an intuition or a conception. The former has an immediate relation to the object, and is singular and individual; the latter has but a mediate relation, by ...