Philosophy of Art

Nothing significant

Nothing significant for the science of art
taught in Germany — Baumgarten's concept
of beauty

of beauty cancels itself out, because according to him all sensuous knowledge is confused, and yet beauty is supposed to be recognized through the sensuous, for then
intellectual

the knowledge would have to cease to be confused, and then it would become intellectual; if it remains
it confused

the perfect

confused, then the perfect cannot be known. Kant has the undeniable merit for the philosophy of art that he freed art from all relation to the agreeable and the useful, and banished raw Empiricism theory that all knowledge originates in experience entirely.
positive character

He was not able to determine the positive character of art precisely. Here and there, he calls an aesthetic representation one that awakens many other ideas, in which it seems to approach the imagination. In another place, he calls an aesthetic representation the symbol
Symbol

of morality, which is just as incorrect. A symbol indeed has a life of its own within itself, but it designates something else, and thus has a purpose outside
identical

of itself. Art is identical with morality under its own peculiar form, but it is