DAVID E. COOPER is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and has been a visiting professor at universities in the US, Canada, Malta, and Sri Lanka. His many books include Philosophy: The Classic Readings (Wiley Blackwell, 2009, edited with P.S. Fosl), World Philosophies: A Historical Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, Second Edition, 2002), Existentialism: A Reconstruction (Wiley Blackwell, Second Edition, 1999) and Animals and Misanthropy (2018).

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 Plato, The Republic, Book 10 9

2 Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 1-15 28

3 (A) Mo Tzu, "Against music"

(B) Hsun Tzu, "A discussion of music" 44

4 Plotinus, Enneads, 1.6 55

5 (A) Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, from Books II and III

(B) Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks (Selections) 66

6 Shih¿t'ao, "Quotes on Painting" 77

7 David Hume, "Of the standard of taste" 89

8 Immanuel Kant, "Critique of aesthetic judgement,"Sections 1-14, 16, 23-4, 28 108

9 Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 26-7 139

10 G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to Aesthetics, Chapters 1-3 154

11 Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I, Section 52 168

12 (A) Walter Pater, The Renaissance, from Preface and Conclusion

(B) Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying" (Selections) 183

13 Leo Tolstoy, "On art" 196

14 Clive Bell, "The aesthetic hypothesis" 210

15 A.K. Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Si¿va, Essays 3¿4 227

16 Junichirö Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (Selections) 243

17 John Dewey, Art as Experience, Chapters 1-2 257

18 Martin Heidegger, "The origin of the work of art," from Lectures 1 and 2 280

19 R.G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art, Chapter 7 296

20 Ronald W. Hepburn, "Aesthetic appreciation of nature" 319

21 Arthur C. Danto, "The Artworld" 337

Index 353