The only thing that would be more ponderous and difficult than trudging through Kant’s prose in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgment would be attempting to put his aesthetic philosophy found within to the test.
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Plato’s Phaedrus
Phaedrus addresses much of the subject matter contained in Gorgias, rhetoric and right living, and closes with a discussion of writing. Yet these discussions are products of the pair’s original topic: love.
Poetics and Purgation
Plato’s banishment of the poets in his Republic is based upon an ideological and moral accusation: poets are imitators of things removed from reality and they cater to the emotions: the irrational nature of pity and fear.
Nietzsche and Naziism
“God is dead,” is an aphorism ascribed to the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s philosophy however did not initiate God’s death in 19th century Europe, but might have supplied the coup de grâce. He looked at the present state of European beliefs and ideologies and, like all good prophets, saw the eminent apocalypse of those beliefs [...]