Dana Reynolds - Hegel

Hegel believes that the universe is a self-perpetuation, dynamic whole consisting of the spirit, or Geist. The universe reveals itself to its inhabitants through art, religion and philosophy. Unlike Schopenhauer, who I talked about earlier, Hegel doesn’t believe that art is of more importance than the other two. He approaches art from a vague starting point and slowly narrows it down to more specific points. He also believes that art only represents the Ideal and is certainly not imitation like Plato thought. He also classified art into three different categories: symbolic art, classical art, and romantic art. He also thinks that at his time, art had fulfilled its purpose, so there should be no new art, but instead art replaced by philosophy. I don’t agree with this, because the type of art that a society finds easily relatable to changes through time, and this is a gateway to understanding more historical art by getting involved with art at all.