History of Western Aesthetics (2)

Author: Lu Yang
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Publish Date: 1999-10-01
Features: In the history of Western aesthetics, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance aesthetics are a period with the longest time span, yet relatively weak in existing research achievements. Baumgarten's Aesthetics defines aesthetics as the academic study of sensitive cognition, the theory of free arts, the epistemology of hierarchical levels, and the art of thinking and symbolizing beauty. According to this standard, except that the symbolic method can refer to the medieval tradition from exegesis to poetic symbolism, and the theory of free arts echoes the art philosophy that was popular during the Renaissance, there was essentially no aesthetics from Augustine to the end of the 6th century over a thousand two hundred years.