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CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. 



CHAPTEE VII. 



OF THE BEAUTIFUL. 



The .^Esthetical century, 3 ; The term ^Esthetic, 5 ; ./Esthetics in the 

 eighteenth century, 6 ; Systematised in Germany, 6 ; Sociological 

 causes, 6 ; Stimulus from classical and foreign literatures, 8 ; In- 

 fluence of the German University system, 8 ; Kant, 9 ; The Critique 

 of Judgment, 12 ; Schiller, 13 ; Special mission of Art, 16 ; Influence 

 of Revolution, 19 ; Schiller's assimilation of Kantian Ethics, 21 ; 

 Split in the humanistic movement, 21 ; Goethe's "inner freedom," 

 22 ; Severance of art and literature from practice, 23 ; Schelling the 

 philosopher of Romanticism, 24 ; Shaf tesbury and Hutcheson, 27 ; 

 Kant's theory of disinterested pleasure, 28 ; The Beautiful and the 

 Sublime, 28; Schiller's " Play -theory," 30; Nature and Art, 34; 

 Personality of the Artist, 34; The "Characteristic," 36; Goethe on 

 seriousness and play, 38 ; Schelling on Art and the problem of 

 Reality. 39 ; This only a transitional point of view, 41 ; Philosophical 

 meaning of Schelling's attempt, 43 ; Mythology, 45 ; Want of logical 

 method in Schelling, 47 ; This supplied by Hegel, 48 ; Neglect of 

 active process, 49 ; Place of ^Esthetics in Hegel's system, 51 ; Art, 

 Religion, and Philosophy form an ascending series, 53 ; Art aban- 

 doned by Schelling for mysticism, 56 ; Hegel uuappreciative of 

 natural beauty, 56 ; Solger, 57 ; Chr. H. Weisse, 60 ; Lotze's version 

 of Weisse's doctrine, 65 ; Schopenhauer and von Hartmann, 69 ; 

 Peculiarity of Schopenhauer's philosophy, 70 ; His happy interpre- 

 tation of the beautiful in nature as well as in art, 75 ; His grouping 

 of the arts, 79 ; His theory of Music, 79 ; Von Hartmann, 83 ; 

 Contrast of Will and Intellect, transcended in the Unconscious, 84 ; 



