Preface
PART Ⅰ Classical and Medieval Aesthetics
PLATO
From Republic,Book X
ARISTOTLE
From Poetics
PLOTINUS
Ennead One,Sixth Tractate
BONAVENTURE
Retracing the Arts to Theolgy
DANTE
Letter Ten
Passages for Discussion
PARTⅡ Modern Aesthetics
Section 1 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
FRANCIS HUTCHESON
From An Lnquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of
Beauty and Virtue
DAVID HUME
Of the Standard of Taste
IMMANUEL KANT
From Critique of Judgment
Section I Passages for Discussion
Section 2 The Nineteenth Century
G.W.F.HEGEL
From The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
From The World as Will and Idea
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
From The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
JOHM USKIN
From Modern Paineters
LEO TOLSTOY
From What Is Art?
Section 2 Passages for Discussion
Section 3 The Turn of the Century
BENEDETTO CROCE
From Aesthetic
EDWARD BULLOUGH
From“Psychical Distance”as a Factor in Art
and as an Aesthetic Principle
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