Philosophy of Art

Everything up to Kant was processed in this dual view. For the aestheticians of the first class, the Aesthetics of Baumgarten was an excellent model?. On the other side, the English and French especially threw themselves into [the fray], raising psychological and physical observations throughout to a theory of the final grounds of art. Baumgarten explains aesthetic pleasure from the perfection of sensory cognition. He understands perfection in a higher sense and calls everything sacred? confused. The sensory loses itself over the supersensible, and the latter over the former. His successors transformed his concepts of perfection into purposiveness, yet only the unconditioned can be perfect, and [only that which] is an end unto itself. If Baumgarten places aesthetic pleasure in the perfection of sensory cognition, which he however deems confused, then the contradiction in which he entangles himself is clear.