{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-03/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"According to Herbart and his followers, good is merely a subdivision of beauty, more particularly beauty attributed to human action. Any questions concerning what is beautiful immediately reveal it to be a very subjective issue. Nothing is more disputed than beauty; what one person finds beautiful another does not. In fact, the most curious views are voiced in quarrels over the beautiful and the ugly, over what is artistically justified and what is not. In the last resort the whole argument as to whether something is beautiful or ugly, artistic or not, rests on man's individual nature. No general law concerning beauty will ever be discovered, nor should it be; nothing would be more meaningless. One may not like a certain work of art, but there is always the possibility of entering into what the artist had in mind and thus coming to see aspects not recognized before. In this way, one may come to realize that it was lack of understanding which prevented one from recognizing its beauty. Such aesthetic judgment, such aesthetic acceptance or rejection, is really something which, though subjective, is justified.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Franz Brentano's Struggle: Truth, Goodness, and Spiritual Science","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Denn schließlich fußt das ganze Urteil über das Schöne und Häßliche, über das künstlerisch Berechtigte oder Nichtberechtigte, lediglich auf der menschlichen Eigenheit selber. Man wird gar nicht irgendeine allgemeine Gesetzgebung des Schönen jemals auffinden können. Man wird sie auch nicht auffinden sollen, denn es könnte nichts Unsinnigeres geben, als eine allgemeine Gesetzgebung über das Schöne oder Häßliche. Es könnte nichts Unsinnigeres geben. Man kann ein Kunstwerk nicht mögen, man kann aber dahin kommen, einzugehen auf dasjenige, was der Künstler wollte, das man vorher nicht eingesehen hat, und man kann es dann sehr schön finden und kann einsehen, daß man es nur deshalb nicht schön gefunden hat, weil man es nicht verstanden hat. 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