Beauty (Kallos / Pulchrum) — Object of aesthetics and philosophy of art. Plato saw beauty as a reflection of the Idea of Beauty in the sensible world, capable of awakening philosophical love (eros). Kant, in the Critique of Judgment, distinguishes the beautiful (which provokes disinterested pleasure with claims to universality) from the agreeable (merely subjective) and the sublime (which exceeds the imagination’s capacity). Hegel conceives of artistic beauty as the “sensuous shining of the Idea.”
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