Preface PART Ⅰ Classical and Medieval Aesthetics PLATO From Republic,Book X ARISTOTLE From Poetics PLOTINUS Ennead One,Sixth Tractate BONAVENTURE Retracing the Arts to Theolgy DANTE Letter Ten Passages for Discussion PARTⅡ Modern Aesthetics Section 1 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries FRANCIS HUTCHESON From An Lnquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue DAVID HUME Of the Standard of Taste IMMANUEL KANT From Critique of Judgment Section I Passages for Discussion Section 2 The Nineteenth Century G.W.F.HEGEL From The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER From The World as Will and Idea FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE From The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music JOHM USKIN From Modern Paineters LEO TOLSTOY From What Is Art? Section 2 Passages for Discussion Section 3 The Turn of the Century BENEDETTO CROCE From Aesthetic EDWARD BULLOUGH From“Psychical Distance”as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle ……