Philosophy of Art

9But where finite ends are pursued, there is only province. The philosophy of art therefore constructs the All in the form of art.
Philosophy stands on the same height as the real side with the ideal potency level of power. As for the question of how that identical essence, "absolute 99 art, absolute beauty," passes into multiplicity and distinctness, philosophy answers this question through the doctrine of the ideas, the which are eternal representations of the Absolute in orig alternating form, with an unchanging essence. Philosophy and art differ only Phil in that the former recognizes original beauty under 2 the guise of truth, while the latter recognizes the primal truth in primal beauty. From this spring 1 all their particular structures. Now, if primal beauty is in God, then these structures are nothing 7 other than objective expressions of the divine 7 spirit: what poetry calls gods, symbols of the absolute given in mythology.
8Thus, the construction of mythology also belongs to the philosophy of art. Since, finally, art as the real side of the ideal representation of the ∞ Infinite will always have its... [cut off]