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May 28, 2007 · The whole "Geniusis" movement is a reference to the Intelligent Design movement, a creationist group that teaches the truth of the Bible's Genesis story. This episode is misspelled on the Volume 2 DVD as "Geniuses". A bump from April 2006 revealed that this episode was originally called "Missing Link".
Nov 12, 2014 · The freedom of the fine artist is such only to the extent that it resembles nature, and ‘it does so precisely because, free and pure, it does not depend on natural laws’. 9 Genius is the agency which ensures this creative freedom, and it is a structural necessity for Kant’s philosophy of art; for, granted the injunction that art must be as free from constraint as if it were simply given ...
- Michael Haworth
- 2014
Oct 1, 2013 · Peter Kivy is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of many books on aesthetics and the philosophy of art, including Thomas Reid's Lectures on the Fine Arts (Martinus Nijoff, 1973), Philosophies of Arts (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and 18th-Century British Aesthetics (second editon, Oxford University ...
Apr 17, 2002 · The topic of this entry is not—at least directly—moral theory; rather, it is the definition of morality. Moral theories are large and complex things; definitions are not. The question of the definition of morality is the question of identifying the target of moral theorizing. Identifying this target enables us to see different moral ...
- Bernard Gert, Joshua Gert
- 2002
Feb 23, 2004 · Kant’s Moral Philosophy. First published Mon Feb 23, 2004; substantive revision Fri Jan 21, 2022. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argued that the supreme principle of morality is a principle of practical rationality that he dubbed the “Categorical Imperative” (CI). Kant characterized the CI as an objective, rationally necessary and ...
Definitions of genius fall into two categories: superlative intellect and phenomenal achievement, where the latter can be subdivided into extraordinary creativity, exceptional leadership, and prodigious performance. However defined, genius has been studied from four main psychological perspectives: general intelligence, domain expertise ...
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Mar 15, 2018 · I do so because this lecture, Emerson’s most explicit and thoroughgoing treatment of the term ‘genius’ (sections of which can be found in later essays), illuminates aspects of his account of genius (namely, its relation to love, virtue and moral perfection and these as divine gift and inspiration) that have gone unnoticed in Emerson scholarship that looks mainly to ‘Self-Reliance ...
