PHI 1800 Philosophy of Art (Aesthetics)

The nature of beauty; the possible moral dangers inherent in art; the nature and meaning of music; the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; the nature and meaning of literature and drama; the way in which a work of art can embody a philosophical thesis; aesthetics in mathematics (the beauty of a proof); the work of modern Jewish thinkers that engaged in deep study of philosophical texts and then, in their own work, contrasted the Hebraic approach to art and the image with that of several different philosophical schools.

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