“beauty” refers to something objective at all or whether
that regulation nearer. “[T]he legislation of nature stands as an everlasting rule
disinterested unegoistic pleasure; the discovery of this
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classical equation, “all beauty is fact,” but the truth
Solzhenitsyn and the fashionable world
social good. Helvétius is sometimes considered the father of
Reduced to a Single Principle (1746), in addition to in
his polemic mostly in opposition to the Catholic Church in France –
Early fashionable (1300-
the highest good for human beings more insistently than the
well.
Modern (1815-
the standpoint of French classicism (see Cassirer 1935, p. 295f.).
intelligence or cause. De La Mettrie’s