Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... feeling and desires is that of Tolstoi . For Tolstoi , art is primarily the language of feeling ; it is a means by which men transmit feeling , in the same way that as by speech they transmit thought . " Art is a human ac- tivity ...
... feeling and desires is that of Tolstoi . For Tolstoi , art is primarily the language of feeling ; it is a means by which men transmit feeling , in the same way that as by speech they transmit thought . " Art is a human ac- tivity ...
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... feeling : the intuition is really such be- cause it represents a feeling , and can only appear from and upon that . Not the idea , but the feeling , is what confers upon art the airy lightness of the symbol : an aspiration enclosed in ...
... feeling : the intuition is really such be- cause it represents a feeling , and can only appear from and upon that . Not the idea , but the feeling , is what confers upon art the airy lightness of the symbol : an aspiration enclosed in ...
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... feeling . What we admire in genuine works of art is the perfect fanciful form which a state of the soul assumes ; and we call this life , unity , solidity of the work of art . What displeases us in the false and imperfect forms is the ...
... feeling . What we admire in genuine works of art is the perfect fanciful form which a state of the soul assumes ; and we call this life , unity , solidity of the work of art . What displeases us in the false and imperfect forms is the ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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