Why must one turn either the creation of art or the appreciation of art into a rigorous philosophical discipline? After all, isn’t art simply a

luxury

that we appreciate in our spare time for amusement? And if art has a practical function, isn’t it merely to develop our

moral

faculties through the imaginative practice of putting ourselves in another’s place? Also, with respect to the continuous debates about good and bad art, doesn’t the appreciation of art simply boil down to an issue of

taste

anyway? When compared to reality, isn’t art simply a

deceptive

facsimile of it? Lastly, doesn’t art, since it springs forth from the imaginative capacities of the mind,

resist

any attempt to codify its rules scientifically or philosophically?

G. W. F. Hegel, in his Lectures on

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Citation: Sola, Andrew. "Vorlesungen über die Aesthetik". The Literary Encyclopedia. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8654, accessed 26 November 2024.]