Hegel

We are free of the domain of Kant, finally...

And now we move to Hegel. Now Hegel splits creativity into the five fine arts; poetry, painting, sculpture, music and architecture... all of which have developed alongside the pursuit for ideal beauty represented in art.

Splitting art into symbolic, classical and romantic Hegel differs from Kant in a few ideas that I agree with. Firstly the idea of basic forms without meaning aside from their unquestionable beauty as Kant believed. Hegel looks more into how religion plays a role in creating art; and thus how meaning and subjectivity of the viewer comes into play for the whole experience of viewing art.

Basically put; Hegel started to look more into the personal reaction created from art.

His ideas around how art and the 'other' outside world create self understanding and consciousness is what is fascinating to me. It makes more sense than most ideas that philosophers come up with. Our search for perfection in art reaches a level at which the next stage of understanding opens; with new challenges and skills for us to reach we again pursue perfection again causing another level to open up for us.

His description of the role of seeking perfection in art to our own understanding of the world and creation of our own self consciousness plays out a little bit like a video game to me.

We have to keep striving, and as we do each level up will bring more parts of the world to explore.