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Philosophers who contributed to art and

aesthetics

by Ahmed-Omar

Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study human culture, using methods that are

primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, and having a significant historical element, as

distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences. The humanities

include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and

visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also sometimes

regarded as social sciences include history, anthropology, area studies, communication

studies, cultural studies, law and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes

described as "humanists". However, that term also describes the philosophical position

of humanism, which some "antihumanist" scholars in the humanities reject. Some secondary

schools offer humanities classes, usually consisting of English literature, global studies, and art.

Human disciplines like history, cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis study subject matters

to which the experimental method does not apply, and they have access instead to

the comparative method and comparative research. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy

dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It

is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensory-emotional values, sometimes

called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as

"critical reflection on art, culture and nature." More specific aesthetic theory, often with practical

implications, relating to a particular branch of the arts is divided into areas of aesthetics such as

art theory, literary theory, film theory and music theory.

Philosophers of Art and Aestheticians

Abhinavagupta

Born

Shankara

c. 950 AD

Kashmir, India

Died

c. 1020 AD

Mangam, Kashmir, India

Titles/honours

Most distinguished exponent

of the monistic Shaivism ofKashmir

Philosophy

Kashmir Shaivism

Abhinavagupta

(c. 950 – 1020 AD) was one of India's greatest philosophers, mystics and aestheticians. He was

also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician —

a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture He was born in

the Valley of Kashmir in a family of scholars and mystics and studied all the schools of

philosophy and art of his time under the guidance of as many as fifteen (or more) teachers

and gurus. In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which

is TantrÄ•loka, an encyclopedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects

ofTrika and Kaula (known today as Kashmir Shaivism). Another one of his very important

contributions was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his

famous AbhinavabhÄ•ratÄ« 1commentary ofNÄ•á¹yaÅ›Ä•stra2 of Bharata Muni

Joseph Addison

Born

1 May 1672

Milston, Wiltshire

Died

17 June 1719 (aged 48)

London

Nationality

English

Occupation

Writer and politician

Joseph Addison

(1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was

the eldest son of reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of

his long-standing friend, Richard Steele3, with whom he founded The Spectator4 magazine.

Aesthetics in this central sense has been said to start in the early eighteenth century, with the

series of articles on “The Pleasures of the Imagination” which the journalist Joseph Addison

wrote in the early issues of the magazine The Spectator in 1712. Before this time, thoughts by

notable figures made some forays into this ground, for instance in the formulation of general

theories of proportion and harmony, detailed most specifically in architecture and music. But the

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Philosophers who contributed to art and aesthetics by Ahmed-Omar Humanities The humanities are academic disciplines that study human culture, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, and having a significant historical element, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences. The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also sometimes regarded as social sciences include history, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, law and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes described as "humanists". However, that term also describes the philosophical position of humanism, which some "antihumanist" scholars in the humanities reject. Some secondary schools offer humanities classes, usually consisting of English literature, global studies, and art. Human disciplines like history, cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis study subject matters to which the experimental method does not apply, and they have access instead to the comparative method and comparative research. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensory-emotional values, sometimes called ...
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