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[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty
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Full Idea
Hegel thinks that natural beauty is of no real significance since it cannot display our freedom to us; nature per se is meaningless.
Gist of Idea
Natural beauty is unimportant, because it doesn't show human freedom
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on Aesthetics [1826]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 11
Book Ref
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.297
A Reaction
Presumably freedom is in the creation, and so creativity is what matters in aesthetics. But what are the criteria of good creativity?
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[beauty in people, life and landscape]:
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185
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Socrates despised good looks
[Socrates, by Plato]
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282
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Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech
[Plato]
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183
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Stage two is the realisation that beauty of soul is of more value than beauty of body
[Plato]
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184
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Progress goes from physical beauty, to moral beauty, to the beauty of knowledge, and reaches absolute beauty
[Plato]
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2837
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Nothing contrary to nature is beautiful
[Aristotle]
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5851
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Pentathletes look the most beautiful, because they combine speed and strength
[Aristotle]
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4870
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The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible
[Spinoza]
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7540
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws
[Goethe]
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19578
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Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful
[Novalis]
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22042
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Natural beauty is unimportant, because it doesn't show human freedom
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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18326
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The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man
[Nietzsche]
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23921
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Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art
[Bell,C]
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23929
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We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value
[Bell,C]
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18548
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Natural beauty reassures us that the world is where we belong
[Scruton]
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