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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv critique of the ontological principles For our purpose the importance of Brownson's ontological theory lies in the fact that it tries to explain how ideas originated, and therefore how man arrived at the idea of the beautiful. It not only does this but goes farther. In accounting for the origin of our idea of the beautiful, or of any other idea, it would give us also some intimation of the content of that idea. Thus he who holds that our idea of the beautiful is derived from, or ultimately equal to, the idea of the All-Perfect will have a view of art and aesthetics widely different from that of the man who believes that his idea of the beautiful arose, say, from the contemplation of nature. Considered in this light the examination of Brownson's ontology, which is really ontologism, should give us some indication of the value of what he says about art; surely some comprehension of his reason for saying that which he does say. Stoeckl remarks that for idealistic minds ontologism with its immediate knowledge of God has something attractive.7 Throughout the history of thought we find great names connected with the theory of the intuition either of ideas that are innate or of the idea of God. Is it that such minds have a more penetrating perception than those of ordinary men? Surely, a refutation of their contention is often made by the statement that men in general are not aware of any such intuition. It should be an easy matter for all men to entertain a distinct notion of God and a conviction of His presence through mere reflection, Father Boedder says, if it were a natural endowment of the human soul to have a direct intuition of God and of His relation to creatures.8 But the consciousness of men in general opposes such a...

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