Philosophy of Art

but he lacks the spiritual idea of beauty. He fluctuates between idea and imitation of nature. He calls genius an innate natural disposition through which nature comes to the aid of art. The creator of a product, if he has genius, does not know how he managed it. It is true that one cannot force ideas, but to say [the artist is] unconscious is something the true artist is likely never [to be]. Furthermore, he says that genius can only provide the material, but the true essence of genius consists in the penetration of form and matter. On the other side, Kant rises to an imperfect intellectualism a philosophy prioritizing abstract thought through his idea of morality. He has a presentiment of the ∞ infinite. However, he places the ∞ infinite more in a quantitative immensity; in such a way that, in view of it, one cannot develop all the side-notations that arise simultaneously. Here he approaches the ideapotiation the elevation or realization of ideas.