Three Lectures on Aesthetics

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Bernard Bosanquet's Three Lectures on Aesthetic (1915) explores aesthetics, which is broader than the philosophy of art. It examines responses to both art and nature, focusing on concepts like beauty and ugliness. Bosanquet, influenced by Hegel, believed aesthetics could reconcile the natural and supernatural, opposing the materialism of his time. He saw reality as a manifestation of a spiritual absolute, emphasizing the interconnectedness of thought and experience. His work aimed to view reality coherently, reconciling opposing concepts.12

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Bernard Bosanquet
…History of Aesthetic (1892) and Three Lectures on Aesthetic (1915). Both reflect his belief that aesthetics can reconcile the natural and the supernatural worlds. As elsewhere in his work, Bosanquet revealed his distaste for the materialism of his day and favoured the neo-Hegelian antidote, which held that everything considered to…
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…History of Aesthetic (1892) and Three Lectures on Aesthetic (1915). Both reflect his belief that aesthetics can reconcile the natural and the supernatural worlds. As elsewhere in his work, Bosanquet revealed his distaste for the materialism of his day and favoured the neo-Hegelian antidote, which held that everything considered to…
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