PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



Philosophy 

 rooted in 

 poetry. 



These latter thinkers, according to Hartmann, do not 

 fully recognise the indispensable character of the Beauti- 

 ful — viz., that it must appear in the region of the 

 sensuous. For them the Beautiful is something trans- 

 cendent ; beautiful things are, as it were, merely the 

 reflection of the essentially and supersensually beautiful. 

 Hartmann agrees with Schelling in considering that 

 philosophy is deeply rooted in poetry. " In the same 

 degree as beauty is opposed to science with its realistic 

 truth, in the same also it is the parent of philosophy with 

 its metaphysical truth. Beauty remains, through its 

 innermost activity, the prophet of ideal truth in an age 

 which has no faith, which detests metaphysics, and which 

 sees no value in anything that is not realistic." Truth, 

 as represented in the Beautiful, lacks the method and 

 the strictness of philosophical truth. It leaps from the 

 subjective appearance to the ideal essence. But against 

 this it carries with it fascination and the force of con- 

 viction which belongs to intuition (or sight) alone, but 

 never to the mediate and gradual process of reflection. 

 The higher philosophy ascends, the less it is distinguished 

 from Art. The latter has the wisdom to start on the 

 journey to the ideal world without burdening itself with 

 the weight of unessential and indifferent things. The 

 Unconscious is inherent or immanent in the Beautiful. 

 By means of the Unconscious is brought about intel- 

 lectual intuition, or intuitive intelligence. Inasmuch as 

 the Beautiful pushes its roots into the unconscious ground 



the individually beautiful, as in the 

 comic, the tragic, and the humour- 

 istic, since in these the conflict 

 of the logical with the unlogical 



and the conquest of the latter by 

 the former becomes distinctly; the 

 content of the Beautiful " (p. 

 199). 



