Kant vs. Hegel

Leona Take LARS 3155 10 February 2013 Kant and Hegel Hegels concept of the autocratic imagination claims that there is a customary and ideal standard that is continuously being revealed throughout history, in various forms of human expression. The Absolute Idea can be interpreted as God, nature, tonicity, or reality. With art, there is no such thing as Art for Arts sake because art is a manifestation of the unfolding of the Absolute Idea.In Hegels Art History, the progression of art is always moving closer to ultimate reality, because spiritual realization is teleological. The Absolute is fully realized when form and content are harmonious and concrete in their depiction of spirit and man. Beauty is dependent upon these things. For Hegel, the classical period is characterized by the depiction of ideal smasher in the pure(a) human body in ancient Greek sculpture.However, the concreteness of the human body is later seen as exceptional for not representing spirit and imagination in a more abstract form. Therefore, Hegels ideal of beauty is ever changing according to Arts development in history, and his terms. In other words, Hegel calls the shots. In contrast to Hegel, Kants philosophy of art was a deliberate attempt to remove personal subjectivity. wish well Hegel, Kant did believe there was a universal beauty, or Absolute of something, except Kant did not have both references to measure this by.For Kant, we can only come to know what is really beautiful when one has no agenda, concept, or comparison to measure the object with. From Kants perspective, Hegel is attached to all of these things, and therefore he can not really know beauty outside of his own perception. It is an intuitive inner knowing, versus a cognitive knowing. This is significantly different from Hegels ideal of beauty, since knowing what is really beautiful can never be answered concretely, provided rather intuitively.