Art — definition?
Human creation expressing beauty or questioning reality.
Happiness — characterized by?
Deep, lasting contentment through fulfillment of desires.
Art and Spirit — Hegel's view?
Art objectifies consciousness, embodying Spirit sensibly.
Plato on art?
Deceptive imitation producing illusory simulacra.
Kant on art?
Disinterested universal pleasure, aesthetic education.
Consciousness — role?
Reflective perception guiding moral and self-awareness.
Duty — Kant's view?
Autonomous moral obligation via categorical imperative.
Unconscious — Freud's claim?
Most psychic life is repressed, beyond awareness.
Justice — Kant's basis?
Universal law protecting dignity and freedom.
Epieikeia — Aristotle?
Law correction for justice in specific cases.
Veil of ignorance — Rawls?
Choosing social rules blind to personal position.
State of nature — Rousseau?
Peaceful, self-love guided human condition.
Mechanistic nature — Descartes?
Nature as geometric machine in motion.
Religion and science — Pascal?
Faith wager: belief rational when reason fails.
Religion and science — Marx?
Religion as opium, delaying material justice.
Technique — Bergson?
Creative extension of human vital intelligence.
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1. Which view best matches Hegel’s account of art?
2. What is the key reason Kant says art cannot be treated like a factual lie?
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