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The Promise of Happiness
Stendhal calls beauty “the promise of happiness”. He gives beauty an invigorating function, one that serves nature. Art, says the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, is a bridge to the peace of extinction. He accepts Kant´s statement that art is disinterested—that is, … Continue reading
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