Scruton first embraced conservatism during the student protests of May 1968 in France. Nicholas Wroe wrote in The Guardian that Scruton was in the Latin Quarter in Paris at the time, watching students ...
Speaking of Art (1973).Francis Hutcheson's Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design (ed., 1973).Thomas Reid's Lectures on the Fine Arts (ed., 1973).The Seventh Sense: A Study of Francis Hutch ...
Baumgarten was born in Berlin as the fifth of seven sons of the pietist pastor of the garrison, Jacob Baumgarten, and of his wife Rosina Elisabeth. Both his parents died early, and he was taught by Ma ...
With his Perpetual Peace, Kant is considered to have foreshadowed many of the ideas that have come to form the democratic peace theory, one of the main controversies in political science.Prominent rec ...
Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in K?nigsberg, Prussia (since 1946 the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), as the fourth of nine children (four of them reached adulthood). Baptized 'Eman ...
English editions of the works of Jacques Lacan have generally left jouissance untranslated, to help convey its specialised usage. Lacan first developed his concept of an opposition between jouissance ...
Levinson started his studies in 1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he gained a BS Degree in Philosophy and Chemistry in 1969. He continued his studies at the University of Michig ...
It is twinned with Lowestoft, England and Bad Aussee, Austria.Transport Plaisir is served by two stations on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line: Plaisir – Les Clayes and Plaisir ...
A true necessary condition in a conditional statement makes the statement true (see "truth table" immediately below). In formal terms, a consequent N is a necessary condition for an antecedent S, in t ...
Surviving medieval art is primarily religious in focus and funded largely by the State, Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, powerful ecclesiastical individuals, or wealthy secular patrons. These art pi ...
The word aesthetic is derived from the Greek α?σθητικ?? (aisthetikos, meaning "esthetic, sensitive, sentient"), which in turn was derived from α?σθ?νομαι (aisthanomai, meaning "I p ...
The word "metaphysics" derives from the Greek words μετ? (metá, "beyond", "upon" or "after") and φυσικ? (physiká, "physics"). It was first used as the title for several of Aristotle's work ...
In the 18th century, music was considered to be so far outside the realm of aesthetic theory (then conceived of in visual terms) that music was barely mentioned in William Hogarth's treatise The Analy ...
One common definition of music is "organized sound". There are many different ways of denoting the fundamental aspects of music which extend beyond tones: popular aspects include melody, harmony, rhyt ...
Small jazz bands of three to four musicians are often referred to as combos and can be found in small night club venues. In modern jazz, an acoustic bass player is almost always present in a small ban ...
