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On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment”

On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment”

22. Sep, 2009 Comments Off

The only thing that would be more ponderous and difficult than trudging through Kant’s prose in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgment would be attempting to put his aesthetic philosophy found within to the test. Kant delivers a paucity of practical examples to make his recondite and ostensibly inconsistent abstractions all the more difficult to assimilate. [...]

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18th c, Aesthetics, Enlightenment, Essay, German
Some Views on Comedy

Some Views on Comedy

21. Jan, 2009 Comments Off

Comedy is poetry that transmutes a sad beginning into a happy ending.

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16th c, 17th c, 18th c, British, Comedy, Enlightenment, French, Renaissance, Vocabulary
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Boredom, Poverty, Vice

Boredom, Poverty, Vice

31. Jan, 2008 Comments Off

Voltaire’s Candide questions the best of all possible worlds that contain daily atrocities, iniquities, and disasters.

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18th c, Enlightenment, French, Prose
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Molière’s <i>Tartuffe</i>

Molière’s Tartuffe

30. Jan, 2008 Comments Off

An overriding theme of Molière’s Tartuffe is not one of religion directly, but of that age-old concern of comme il faut, propriety, and appearance versus reality.

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17th c, Comedy, Enlightenment, French
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Enlightenment Ideas

Enlightenment Ideas

03. Jan, 2008 Comments Off

Ideas developed during the Enlightenment still inform much of our philosophy today.

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Enlightenment
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