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[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty
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Full Idea
Leibniz identified beauty with intellectual perfection.
Gist of Idea
Leibniz identified beauty with intellectual perfection
Source
report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Sebastian Gardner - Aesthetics 1.2.1
Book Ref
'Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject', ed/tr. Grayling,A.C. [OUP 1995], p.590
A Reaction
Well he would, wouldn't he? Swots like Leibniz are inclined to value things which only they can fully appreciate. There may be intellectual subject matter in the study of a rose, but I do not believe that it is needed to appreciate the beauty.
The
33 ideas
with the same theme
[beauty as a quality in minds and objects]:
299
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What is fine is always difficult
[Plato]
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249
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People who value beauty above virtue insult the soul by placing the body above it
[Plato]
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155
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Beauty is the clearest and most lovely of the Forms
[Plato]
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390
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If goodness involves moderation and proportion, then it seems to be found in beauty
[Plato]
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172
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Love of ugliness is impossible
[Plato]
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173
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Beauty and goodness are the same
[Plato]
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4026
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Beauty is harmony with what is divine, and ugliness is lack of such harmony
[Plato]
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24241
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Beauty must always be perfect
[Plato]
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52
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We choose things for their fineness, their advantage, or for pleasure
[Aristotle]
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514
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Beauty is merely animal without intelligence
[Democritus (attr)]
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18555
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The beautiful is that from which nothing can be subtracted and to which nothing can be added
[Alberti]
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12925
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Beauty increases with familiarity
[Leibniz]
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8110
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Leibniz identified beauty with intellectual perfection
[Leibniz, by Gardner]
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19773
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Without love, what use is beauty?
[Rousseau]
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24170
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Kant thinks beauty ignores its objects, because it is only 'form' engaging with mind
[Cochrane on Kant]
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22711
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The beautiful is not conceptualised as moral, but it symbolises or resembles goodness
[Kant, by Murdoch]
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4025
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Kant saw beauty as a sort of disinterested pleasure, which has become separate from the good
[Kant, by Taylor,C]
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20412
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Beauty is only judged in pure contemplation, and not with something else at stake
[Kant]
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21488
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The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will
[Schopenhauer]
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4182
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A principal pleasure of the beautiful is that it momentarily silences the will
[Schopenhauer]
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20271
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Beauty in art is the imitation of happiness
[Nietzsche]
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20433
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'Beauty' can either mean sensuous charm, or the aesthetic approval of art (which may be ugly)
[Fry]
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21233
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The beautiful is whatever it is intrinsically good to admire
[Moore,GE]
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23922
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The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions
[Bell,C]
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5928
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Beauty is neither objective nor subjective, but a power of producing certain mental events
[Ross]
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23848
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The aesthete's treatment of beauty as amusement is sacrilegious; beauty should nourish
[Weil]
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23832
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We both desire what is beautiful, and want it to remain as it is
[Weil]
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23899
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The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite
[Weil]
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18544
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Maybe 'beauty' is too loaded, and we should talk of fittingness or harmony
[Scruton]
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18553
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Beauty shows us what we should want in order to achieve human fulfilment
[Scruton]
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18556
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Beauty is rationally founded, inviting meaning, comparison and self-reflection
[Scruton]
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6607
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The word 'beautiful', when deprived of context, is nearly contentless
[Fogelin]
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24174
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Beauty is fittingness, of details uniting within a pattern
[Cochrane]
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