Title The emergence of modern aesthetic theory : religion and morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland / Simon Grote

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Ideas in Context Ideas in context. Contents Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Transcription and Citation -- Introduction -- 1 Christian Wolff's Critics and the Foundation of Morality -- Wolffâ#x80;#x99;s Defense of Natural Obligation -- Johann Liborius Zimmermann -- Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling -- Conclusion -- 2 Pietist Aisthesis, Moral Education, and the Beginnings of Aesthetic Theory -- Pietist Aisthesis and Moral Education -- Divine Inspiration and Sacred Poetry -- Baumgartenâ#x80;#x99;s Defense of Divine Inspiration Anti-Stoic Resistance to WolffConclusion -- 3 Alexander Baumgarten's Intervention -- The Aesthetic Cultivation of Living Cognition -- Aesthetics and the Problem of â#x80;#x9C;Wolffianâ#x80;#x9D; Pedagogical Style -- Aesthetics and the Foundation of Morality -- Conclusion -- 4 Francis Hutcheson at the Margins of the Scottish Enlightenment -- The Shaftesburian Reform of Scottish Presbyterianism -- Hutchesonâ#x80;#x99;s Divergence from Shaftesbury -- Conclusion -- 5 William Cleghorn and the Aesthetic Foundation of Justice -- Cleghornâ#x80;#x99;s Life Hutcheson and Hume on the Foundation of JusticeHutcheson against the Rationalists -- Cleghornâ#x80;#x99;s Alternative -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography Summary This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Aesthetics, Modern -- History Enlightenment -- Germany Enlightenment -- Scotland Ethics -- Germany Ethics -- Scotland PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics. Aesthetics, Modern Enlightenment Ethics Religion Ästhetik SUBJECT Germany -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054644 Scotland -- Religion Subject Germany Scotland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108524018 110852401X 1108522521 9781108522526 9781316275559 1316275558

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