Portal:Aesthetics
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A branch of philosophy that addresses questions about beauty. Sometimes combined with Ethics as axiology—the study of value.
Works
- Pulchrism: Championing Beauty as the Purpose of Art by Jesse Waugh, 2015
- "Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination" in The Spectator by Addison, J., 1712
- Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste by Alison, A., 1811
- Essai sur le Beau by André, Y. M., 1741
- Les beaux arts réduits à un même principe by Batteux, C.. 1746
- Cours de belles lettres by Batteux, C., 1765
- Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus by Baumgarten, A. G., 1735
- Art by Bell, C., 1914
- Entretiens d’Ariste et Eugène by Bouhours, D., 1761
- A History of Aesthetic by Bosanquet, B., 1892, 1904
- Three Lectures on Aesthetic by Bosanquet, B., 1915
- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Burke, E., 1757
- Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times by Cooper, A. Third Earl of Shaftesbury, 1711
- L'Estetica come scienza dell'espressione e linguistica generale by Croce, B., 1902
- Breviario di estetica by Croce, B., , 1913
- Traité du beau by Crousax, J.-P. de, 1715
- On the Corruption of Taste by Dacier, A., 1714
- Reflections on Taste by de Lambert, Marquise, 1748
- Dialogue sur le coloris by de Piles, R., 1673
- Cours de peinture par principes avec un balance de peintres by de Piles, R., 1708
- "Beau" in Encyclopédie by Diderot, D., 1751
- Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting, and Music by Dubos, J.-B., 1719
- "An essay in Aesthethics" by Fry, R., 1909
- An Essay on Taste by Gerard, A., 1759
- Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape by Gilpin, W., 1794
- Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen by Gottsched, J. C., 1730
- Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik by Hegel, G., 1835
- Kritische Wälder, oder Betrachtungen, die Wissenschaft und Kunst des Schönen betreffend by Herder, J. G., 1769
- Kalligone by Herder, J. G., 1800
- The Analysis of Beauty by Hogarth, W., 1753
- The Elements of Criticism by Home, H. (Lord Kames), 1762
- A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, D., 1739–40
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by Hume, D. 1751
- "Of the Standard of Taste" by Hume, D., 1757
- An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue by Hutcheson, F., 1726
- An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense by Hutcheson, F., 1742
- A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy by Hutcheson, F.. 1747
- A System of Moral Philosophy by Hutcheson, F., 1755
- Critique of Pure Reason by Kant, I., 1781, 1787
- Critique of the Power of Judgment by Kant, I., 1790
- L’Iliade, avec Discours sur Homère by La Motte, 1714
- Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry by Lessing, G. E., 1766
- Eléments de littératur by Marmontel, J. F., 1787
- On the Main Principles of the Fine Arts and Sciences, by Mendelssohn, M., 1757
- On Sentiments by Mendelssohn, M.,
- Rhapsody, or addition to the Letters on Sentiments by Mendelssohn, M.,
- Essay on Taste in Encyclopédie by Montesquieu, C., Voltaire and d'Alembert, 1757
- Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik by Nietzsche, F., 1872
- Parallel of the Ancients and the Moderns by Perrault, C., 1688–97
- An Essay on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and Beautiful by Price, U., 1796
- Traité de L’Harmonie by Rameau, J.-P., 1722
- Démonstration du principe de l’harmonie by Rameau, J.-P., 1750
- Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man by Reid, T., 1785
- Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy by the President by Reynolds, J., 1778
- Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation) by Schopenhauer. A., 1818, 1844
- Über Anmut und Würde by Schiller, F., 1793
- Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Mankind by Schiller, F., 1795
- Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste by Sulzer, J. G., 1771–74
- On the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks by Winckelmann, J. J., 1755
- Abhandlung von der Fähigkeit der Empfindung des Schönen in der Kunst und dem Unterrichte in derselben by Winckelmann, J. J., 1763
- "The Principles of Architecture," in The Principles of All Mathematical Sciences, by Wolff, C., 1750–57