The Freedom of Beauty in Hegel

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According to Hegel “...the beautiful itself must be grasped as Idea, in particular as Idea in a determinate form, i.e. as Ideal. ...the Idea as such is nothing but the Concept, the real existence of the Concept, and the unity of the two.” “Idea is the truth”, since “beauty is the pure appearance of the Idea to sense”, beauty is also the truth. That brings us to the freedom of the beautiful in Hegelian sense. Beautiful object is free and infinitive. Hegel distinguishes our relation with beautiful object that of a desired one. According to him, in the case of the relationship of the subject to the object, either the subject or the object is free. Then how is it with the beautiful object?

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