O SCHIŢĂ A IDEILOR ESTETICE DIN ANTICHITATE PÂNĂ LA KANT
A Draft of Aesthetic Ideas from Antiquity to Kant

Summary/Abstract: This text is an unpublished draft of lectures on the history of aesthetics given by the Professor Dumitru Isac (1914–1984). The draft lectures, from among agreat number of disparate manuscripts that Professor Isac left after his death, were undated, but it is known that he conceived and wrote his first lectures on aesthetics during the 1950s and it is reasonable to believe that he continued this work until the last years of his life. The drafts were probably designed to initiate and support some more developed lectures, each of them treating a historical moment, an epoch or a certain distinguished author (e.g. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in antiquity; Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, etc. in modern times). Despite the fact that only a small number of these texts have been published, such works have contributed to the professional profile of Dumitru Isac and contributed to the reputation that he gained and maintained over time among his academic colleagues.

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