著者

齋藤 信平

出版者

山梨英和大学

雑誌

山梨英和大学紀要 (ISSN:1348575X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, pp.75-87, 2005-12

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This paper is the introductory part of my whole study on the transition of English aesthetic sense in the eighteenth century. It is a generally accepted that Shaftesbury is the first English aesthetician. But to examine aesthetic sense of Shaftesbery, it is essential to define what heritage Shaftesbury received from seventeenth century thought. To investigate the starting point of aesthetic sense in England, I refer to the two great philosophers, Cassirer and Lovejoy, and try to deal with the question of aesthetic sense from the viewpoint of the changing view of the world. Then, by referring to the genealogy of the Neoplatonists by Cassirer and the idea of 'the great chain of being' by Lovejoy, first of all, I deal with the concept of 'the plastic nature' of the Cambridge Platonists to show clearly that Shaftesbury received the concept of a picture of 'a gradual cosmos' from the Cambridge Platonists.