Wittgenstein on “Beautiful” and “The Beautiful”
In an entry in his Notebooks 1914-1916 Wittgenstein appears to give some credit to the idea widespread in modern aesthetics that «the end of art is the beautiful »: «[…] there is certainly something» – he writes – in this conception. And he comments on: «[…] the beautiful is what makes happy » (NB 2...
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Firenze University Press
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Aisthesis |
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| Online Access: | http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/12842 |