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Quest for Beauty in the Horizon of Consciousness

Summary/Abstract: Human’s knowing activity takes place on three main knowledge layers. These are senses, imagination and mind. As a knowledge category beautiful is a subject of envisagement as much as senses. Baumgarten, who contributed to philosophy by introducing esthetics as a discipline, differentiate knowledge to categories that are reached by senses and mind. Esthetic truth can be reached by sensory knowledge, objective truth can be reached by reason. While Baumgarten differentiating objective truth and esthetic truth, he asserts that objective truth is superior to esthetic truth. After Baumgarten, horizon in general, esthetic horizon in special is not only a part of the envisioned space, it becomes prominent as envisagement itself. In this study, the development of the horizon as a space in art history we will be touched, and the boundaries or limits and limitlessness of the horizon will be discussed.

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