Hegelian Aesthetics

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This paper reviews how Hegel's aesthetic ideal is associated with art or more specifically fine art, as the first of three expressions of the culmination of spiritual development from objective then subjective to the absolute, or the combination of both objective and subjective spiritual awareness. The paper goes on to discuss how 'absolute reality' is what Hegel would refer to as the 'absolute spirit', or the world spirit that is shared by all.

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"Desmond goes on to say that Hegel claims that there has been a divorce of the self from art and that art no longer serves this purpose, yet many if not all artists would coldly disagree or even agree in the sense that art is driven not only by self but by a common current of art for the sake of the other, the consumer. Artists constantly challenge the concept of art for self as they outwardly grapple with selling something so reflective of self to another who may or may not understand the message. This is reflected in the modern by the idea that in art, music and even knowledge, success is a failure that many are seeking, again a reflection of the incomplete being the base of contradiction and need for synthesis."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich." The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed. 2004.
• Desmond, William. Art and the Absolute : A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics /. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1986.
• Hegel, G. W. F. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. Trans. T. M. Knox. Vol. 2. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1998.
• Hegel, G. W. F. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. Trans. T. M. Knox. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
• Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy. New York: Oxford Un Press. 1959.

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