Description: Introduction Plato The Arts and Measure (Selections from Statesman ) Imitative Art: Definition and Criticism (Selections from The Republic, Sophist, Laws ) Artistic Inspiration (Selections from Ion, Phaedrus ) The Love of Beauty (Selections from Symposium ) Aristotle What Is Art? (Selections from Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics ) Translated by W. D. Ross Coming-to-Be and Artistic Production: Nature and Art (Selections from Parts of Animals, Physics, and Metaphysics ) Translated by William Ogle, R. P. Hardie, and R. K. Gaye Standard of Artistic Goodness (Selections from Nicomachean Ethics ) Translated by W. D. Ross Beauty (Selections from Metaphysics, Rhetoric ) Translated by W. D. Ross, W. Rhys Roberts The Imitative Art of Poetry (Selections from Poetics, Rhetoric ) Translated by Ingram Bywater, W. Rhys Roberts Theory of Music (Selections from Politics ) Translated by Benjamin Jowett Plotinus Ennead I , Sixth Tractate: Beauty Ennead V , Eighth Tractate: On the Intellectual Beauty Selections from Ennead VI , Seventh Tractate: Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms Selections from Ennead III , Eight Tractate: Nature, Contemplation, and the One Translated by Stephen MacKenna Augustine Selections from De Ordine Translated by Robert P. Russell Selections from De Musica Redaction and Translation by W. F. Jackson Knight Marsilio Ficino Selections from Commentary on Plato's Symposium Translated by Sears Reynolds Jayne Shaftesbury Selections from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times . . . Selections from Second Characters or the Language of Forms Immanuel Kant Selections from Critique of Judgment Translated by J. H. Bernard Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Selections from System of Transcendental Idealism Translated by Albert Hofstadter Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Selections from The Philosophy of Fine Art Translated by F. P. B. Osmaston Arthur Schopenhauer Selections from The World as Will and Idea Translated by R. B. Haldane J. Kemp Friedrich Nietzsche Selections from The Birth of Tragedy Translated by Clifton P. Fadiman Benedetto Croce Selections from "Aesthetics" ( Encyclopaedia Britannica , Fourteenth Edition) John Dewey Selections from Art as Experience Martin Heidegger The Origin of the Work of Art Translated by Albert Hofstadter

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