The universal state of world: the \poetics\ autonomy of hero and the prosaic life in State of Hegel´s Aesthetics

Author(s)

Antonio Vieira da Silva Filho

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2006-06-08

Examining board members

Marco Aurélio Werle; José Eduardo Marques Baioni; Eduardo Brandão

• Advisor: Marco Aurélio Werle

Abstract

The present dissertation discusses two central concepts of Hegel´s Aesthetics: the universal state of heroic world and the prosaic. These two concepts refer to the determinations and different historical realities. On one hand, in the state of heroic world, upon individual autonomy of hero. Who has your action in direct unit with the universal, the holy. To Hegel this is the state which is vindicated by the artistic ideal. On the other hand, the prosaic states, where the person\' s individual action is mediated by the state institutions, mediation in which nature just claim one way of exposition able to catch those mediations, the philosophy. From these concepts, located in their relationship with the art like the absolute exposition ofthe spirit truth, the search here is to render problematic the place of the Greek experience inthe systematic reading of Hegel, articulating two aspects which appear like mains in bis Aesthetics, that means: the Greek experience like coincident of the classical concept, that is, like the place of the true expression of the beautifulness; and at its time, this beautiful expression, like it was though by Hegel, like one moment not so developed of absolute exposition of spirit. The table of this development in Hegel is the auto conscience of the liberty of spirit and for that reasons, to the present prosaic states is according, at the same time, to the highest accomplishment of liberty in the modero world. This accomplishment is the truest because it is the conc rete and it is related to the absolute exposition of the spirit itself by the concrete, determining this way the weakness of the artistic form while gifted of absolute value of truth the present prosaic states. (AU)