Issue of Aesthetics and Philosophers
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Sebastian Gardner cites the issues of aesthetic experience and aesthetic judgment in terms of the theories of Hume and Kant, but he also notes many of the other philosophers who addressed issues of aesthetics. He says of Nietzsche, for instance, that he makes a fundamental distinction between the Dionysian and the Apolline, with the first concerned with immersion in the oneness of the world while the latter is concerned with the realm of appearances:This distinction has proved inspirational for artists and writers on art, but remains philosophically obscure: it has been much discussed whether Nietzsche intends the distinction to be one between different forms of experience, different kinds of art, or different but equally necessary aspects of all works of art (Gardner 621). Nietzsche's view is actually tied closely with his ideas of history and with his deeper concerns about the soundness of his own society. Nietzsche as a young man viewed the purpose of the philosopher in much the same light as did Plato--he saw the philosopher as the physician of a culture, identifying and curing its ills (Strauss and Cropsey 829). Nietzsche's mode of discourse was loft
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