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Thomas Jefferson on Taste and the Fine Arts

Thomas Jefferson on Taste and the Fine Arts

Holowchak, M. Andrew

Paperback

Series: American History

PhilosophyGeneral ArtGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 1648895719
ISBN13: 9781648895715
Publisher: Vernon Pr
Published: Nov 28 2022
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Jefferson tended to classify the books of his libraries under the Baconian headings of memory, reason, and imagination, which corresponded to history, philosophy, and the fine arts. Thus, education in the Fine Arts, which Jefferson listed as eight, was considered an indispensible part of the life of an educated person-especially a Virginian. An educated person needed knowledge of architecture, gardening, painting, sculpture, rhetoric, belle lettres, poetry music, and criticism, considered as a sort of meta-art. Knowledge of such arts was indispensible because each person, thought Jefferson, was equipped with a faculty of taste as well as ratiocination and a moral-sense faculty-each of which required cultivation for human thriving. An uncultivated imagination would severely impair ratiocination and moral sensitivity.

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