When1: 1902
When2: 1917
Who: Benedetto Croce [Croce, Benedetto]
What: philosopher
Where: Rome, Italy
works\ Philosophy of the Spirit [1902 to 1917]; Notes on Aesthetics: Four Lessons [1917]
Detail: He lived 1866 to 1952 and was idealist.
Aesthetics
Art is individual and not categorizable but embodies universals in individuality. Art is to make beautiful objects embodying artist feelings. Art involves imagination, which conceives images to express subjects or objects. It needs no skill. Art enjoyment comes from pleasure that people feel inside as they form same perfect underlying image that they observe.
Epistemology
People use intuition to know particular things and other things that have no concepts.
Metaphysics
Spirit has four aspects: aesthetic, economic, ethical, and logical.
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