Section 1 Definition of Aesthetics Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty and taste. To understand aesthetics better it is useful to consider the influence that philosophy has had on our current understanding of aesthetics. I have chosen Plato, Nietzsche and Ruskin to illustrate how I understand aesthetics. ... My view of what Plato is saying is that he is emphasizing that beauty can be seen in all things and that beauty is universal and the same. ... Why, then, may not a landscape be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but ...

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It also aims to uncover those sources of wisdom and knowledge within the Western history of philosophy and theology, which might be helpful in developing new perspectives for an appropriate response to this crisis. ... A second and decisive development, by which nature is secularised, neutralised, is found at the beginning of the hegemony of the conceptual-nominalistic tradition in Western philosophy and theology. ... Although Ockham's doctrine is a prelude to the typically modern adage of the 'verum et factum convertuntur', the birthplace of modern science is Nicholas Cusan...

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WH Walsh wrote the book Hegelian Ethics in 1969 in an attempt to make clear the philosophy and writings of a philosopher that was neglected by other philosophers for more than a generation. ... Walsh begins his book by explaining that very few students in philosophy in the English-speaking world have an accurate knowledge of Hegels ethical theories. ... Hegel saw philosophy as taking stock of what has been achieved and lay bare its theoretical foundations. Hegel saw it being the same as what Plato did for the Greeks by giving them an interpretation of the nature of Greek ethical life. ...

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