Enlightenment aesthetics

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Enlightenment aesthetics is a philosophical approach to art and beauty that emerged in 18th-century Europe, emphasizing reason, universal principles, and critical reflection on artistic imitation and taste.

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instanceOf 18th‑century philosophical current
aesthetic theory
philosophical movement in aesthetics
associatedWithHistoricalPeriod the Enlightenment
linked to: Enlightenment
claims aesthetic judgments aspire to universality
taste can be educated
concerns aesthetic experience
criteria of beauty
judgment of taste
relation between art and nature
role of reason in aesthetic judgment
universality of aesthetic judgments
developedBy Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
David Hume
Denis Diderot
Edmund Burke
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Immanuel Kant
distinguishes the beautiful from the sublime
emergedInCentury 18th century
emergedInRegion Europe
emphasizes artistic imitation
critical reflection
reason
taste
universal principles
focusesOn art
beauty
influenced 19th‑century aesthetics
Romantic aesthetics
modern philosophy of art
influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
empiricism
rationalism
keyWork Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s "Aesthetica"
David Hume’s "Of the Standard of Taste"
Edmund Burke’s "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s "Laocoön"
Immanuel Kant’s "Critique of Judgment"
partOf Enlightenment intellectual history
history of aesthetics
relatedToConcept aesthetic judgment
disinterested pleasure
genius
mimesis
taste
the beautiful
the sublime
viewsArtAs capable of expressing universal truths
subject to rational criticism

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