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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The questions regarding art and beauty are as old as philosophy itself or older considering that Homer Hesiod and Pindar already reflect on the role and particular gifts of the poet. Yet for the longest time art and beauty have been treated separately for the most part. The two notions were generally discussed in the context of other philosophical issues in which art and beauty played only a subordinate role. Philo- sophically beauty more often than not was treated in the context of metaphysics be it for Plato Plotinus or Thomas Aquinas. The concept of art on the other hand underwent a long series of permutations that have by no means reached an end. The tendency was for the concept of art to become narrower and to exclude more and more activities and products. Crafts trades and skills were originally all included in the concept of art understood as t???? and ars; the equation of art with the fine arts was a very late development. No art whether as practical know-how or as a member of the fine arts family was ever considered autonomous before Kant. Art was imbed- ded in a social pedagogical theological or merely economic program that regulated its production. Not until the eighteenth century were the questions regarding art’s epistemological and practical value and about the nature of the work of art and of beauty integrated into a systematic independent philosophical discipline that then became known as aesthetics. Before this time the term “aesthetics” derived from the Greek aisthesis meaning perception had referred to the philosophical theory of sense perception. Baumgarten and Kant both (LL)