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“Those who criticize without creating, those who are content to defend the vanished concept without being able to give it the forces it needs to return to life, are the plague of philosophy.”

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri-‘What is Philosophy, 1991

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History of Aesthetic – Bosenquest – Aristotle (Abandoned)

And so we begin with the three principles of ancient aesthetic thought. The metaphysical, moral, and the aesthetic. These contrast and find themselves in an antithesis against 3 ideas that the content of the principles raise, that being Imitation/Symbolic, Real/Aesthetic Interest, and Abstract/Concrete Analysis respectively

(These are more blatantly modern concerns but are touched upon by the ancients)

Antithesis of, and1. Imitation/Symbol2. Real/Aesthetic Interest3. Abstract/Concrete Analysis
Original PrincipleMetaphyical MoralAesthetic
From This Post if you need each fleshed out
Aristotle
  1. Imitation/Symbol – We will continue to look at the ” idea that only such reality as pleases in ordinary experience is that by the reproduction of which fine art hopes to please” (HOA, 56).” So for Aristotle, because he still uses imitation to define art, does his idea of imitation lead to ‘symbolism’. a) Selection of Phenomena –

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