Nature
In Our Time: Science
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The Importance of Nature in the Experience of Beauty
Kant was very much influenced by Rousseau in his aesthetic theory. His view is that, indeed, the experience of beauty has as its primary object, the natural world. But nature then begins to attain an enormous, in aesthetic hierarchy, it becomes more important than art. And this is something which Kant sketched in language, which has never really been fully explained to the ordinary mortals. It was extremely influential on those who had already been influenced into thinking of nature as the found of innocence.
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