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An Essay On True And Apparent Beauty In Which From Settled Principles Is Rendered The Grounds For Choosing And Rejecting Epigrams

An Essay On True And Apparent Beauty In Which From Settled Principles Is Rendered The Grounds For Choosing And Rejecting Epigrams

Nicole, Pierre
V. Cunningham, J.

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354943837
ISBN13: 9789354943836
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Aug 17 2021
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A hook: A lucid invitation to see beauty through reason, and to understand why taste itself matters. This philosophical essay by Pierre Nicole navigates the grounds for choosing and rejecting epigrams, weaving moral philosophy with literary criticism to illuminate how beauty is perceived, judged, and enjoyed. Written with clarity and precision, it offers a compact, accessible meditation on aesthetics, the nature of taste, and the rhetoric that shapes graceful judgment. Far from a dry treatise, it reads like a conversation that scholars and curious readers can savor, inviting you to examine how settled principles become the grounds for aesthetic discernment. Alpha Editions brings this important work back to light, preserving its dignified argument for today's readers and for future generations. The book is more than a reprint: it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, restored to its former clarity and vitality so that currents of early modern thought-philosophical inquiry, moral philosophy, and classical rhetoric-remain alive in the modern imagination. The essay speaks to casual readers curious about the roots of beauty as well as to collectors of classical thought, who value the lineage of Renaissance aesthetics and seventeenth-century France. A refined, compact volume that rewards thoughtful reading, it stands as a testament to how enduring questions about beauty-and the judgments they provoke-continue to shape literary criticism and our sense of taste.

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