OF THE BEAUTIFUL. 



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Weisse's peculiar development of a conception we can 

 trace back to the writings of Schelling, Solger, and 

 Hegel, it will be most useful for my purpose to appeal 

 to Lotze's own statement, which is to be found in 39. 



Lotze's 



two tracts (1845 and 1847), but more concisely and version of 

 clearly in the syllabus of his lectures on Jj^sthetics, doctrine. 

 delivered during his professorship at Gottingen, for the 

 last time in the year 1865.^ He there refers to the 

 fundamental aspect — no doubt suggested by Weisse — 

 which forms the foundation of the whole of his specula- 

 tion, and which he repeats in all his more important 

 writings. With a desire to vindicate for the Beautiful 

 not merely a subjective existence in the human soul but 

 an absolute value and important connections in the real 

 world of men and nature, he says : " The real world shows 

 us three interwoven regions or powers — viz., first, a 

 realm of general laws which impress us as absolutely 

 necessary, which govern everything that is real, but 

 through their very generality produce for themselves 



be the subject not only of the 

 thought but also of the moral ap- 

 preciation and sesthetical enjoyment 

 of personal minds or spirits, form- 

 ing a feature in their living experi- 

 ence. I cannot find that, even 

 in the latest form of Weisse's 

 Esthetics, this point or the differ- 

 ence in this respect with Lotze, 

 mentioned by Seydel in his appre- 

 ciation of their respective philoso- 

 phies, is brought out. (See 'Religion 

 und Wissenschaft,' pp. 84 S55. , 132 

 sqq.) As, however, the introduc- 

 tion of definite words, such as 

 Value and Worth, has done so 

 much in history to characterise and 

 even to direct courses of thought, 

 it is well to point, as Windelband 



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has done, to the importance of 

 Lotze's introduction of these terms 

 into philosophical literature. Cf. 

 supra, note to p. 408, vol. iii. 



1 The two Tracts appeared orig- 

 inally in a collective publication, 

 ' Gottinger Studien,' with the re- 

 spective titles : ' Ueber den Begriff 

 der Schonheit ' and 'Ueber Beding- 

 ungen der Kunstschonheit.' The 

 Lecture Notes on Esthetics were 

 published after the Syllabus, pre- 

 pared by Lotze for his Course in 

 the year 1856, by E. Rehnisch iu 

 the year 1884. The two earlier 

 Tracts are reprinted in Peipers' edi- 

 tion of Lotze's 'Kleine Schriften,' 

 vols. i. and ii. 



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