Johann Georg Sulzer

Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature and Moral Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History

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Produktbeschreibung

Swiss critic Johann Georg Sulzer's Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature (1750) and Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History (1745) are exemplary specimens of eighteenth-century European theology, philosophy, natural history, and aesthetics. Sulzer's contemporaries-notably Goethe-read him with attention. Eric Miller's elegant translation comes with a vivid, informative, and strongly contextualizing introduction. Sulzer's early works are a curio cabinet of the philosophical and theological arguments that exercised and enticed the intelligentsia of his period. These topics and arguments have by no means forfeited pertinence today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780761830863
• ISBN-10: 0761830863
• Artikelnr.: 31306234

Autorenporträt

By Johann Georg Sulzer - Translated by Eric Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Acknowledgments: Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature Chapter 4 Reflection on This New Edition Chapter 5 First Dialogue: The first dialogue details the sensory beauties of nature.
They comprise:
A morning view
Natural pleasure
Change in natural beauty
Gentle effects of nature
Order and harmony of nature
Beauty of the vegetable kingdom
Beauty of Chapter 6 Second Dialogue: Origin of the arts in nature
Comparison of nature and art
Agreeable engagement of the spirit
Nature's consummate art manifest in the eye
Wisdom in the works of nature
Wisdom in individual kinds
Exceptional example of the above Chapter 7 Third Dialogue: An evening prospect
Evening thoughts
Champions of arbitrary chance
True order and constant equilibrium in nature
How much is owing to accident
Purpose in nature
Doubts raised against the above
Proof of purpose drawn from indiv Chapter 8 Fourth Dialogue: Kinds of beauty in nature
Rarities in nature
In the kingdom of minerals
In the vegetable kingdom
Wonder in the generation of plants
In the animal kingdom
Metamorphoses of insects
Genius of animals
Economy and genius of bees
Chapter 9 Fifth Dialogue: God in the beauty of nature
Highest object of thought
nature is the school of the spirits
And of the heart
Highest degree of natural beauty
Moral reflections on certain topics of natural history