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[from 'Lectures on Aesthetics' by Georg W.F.Hegel, in 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty ]

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 Reference

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?