This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...however, as it affects the understanding of Kant's principles, it occasionally forces us into tentativeness where certainty is desirable. There can be little doubt that Kant placed art in a sphere of its own midway between that of the Understanding, the faculty of concepts, and that of the Reason, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...however, as it affects the understanding of Kant's principles, it occasionally forces us into tentativeness where certainty is desirable. There can be little doubt that Kant placed art in a sphere of its own midway between that of the Understanding, the faculty of concepts, and that of the Reason, the capacity for ideas. Were there no bond between that which men know empirically and that which they apprehend through the reason, there would be a complete break between what they understand and what they desire in the way of totality and completeness. The majority of men, bound down by life, would never have any incitement "to ffeedpin, nor devotion to ideas. What art is, how it c6rfles""irlto being, what effects it has, are immediately important questions; but before we can answer them we must fix this fundamental conception of Kant's in mind: that_art has its ownworld jyjd, that it Js_neither the slave of the understanding, the faculty that orders and defines and recognizes experience, nor the companion and equal of the products of reason, th'eTTaculty that searches frifmtty--and scorns all that is empirical. In spite of this, art, because it is representative, must make use of the materials of perception, which are to ordinary men seeking knowledge the materials of the understanding alone--the facts which determine the concepts. But it does not make use of them as the underStanding demands. On the other hand, because art is representative, it seems to cut itself off from reason which is devoted to _the theoretical; yet, because it is undetermined by the understanding, it is possible that it may have some connection with the higher rational power. Before Kant took up the consideration of the character or of the. origin of art, he made...
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