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 +| style="text-align: left;" |[[Immanuel Kant|Kant]]'s famous definition of the [[beauty|beautiful]]. "That is beautiful," says Kant, "which pleases without [[Interest (emotion)|interesting]]." Without interesting! Compare this definition with this other one [..] by [[Stendhal]], who once called the beautiful une ''[[La beauté est une promesse de bonheur|promesse de bonheur]]''. Here, at any rate, the one point which Kant makes prominent in the aesthetic position is repudiated and eliminated—le [[Disinterestedness|désinteressement]]. Who is right, Kant or Stendhal? --Nietzsche, ''[[On the Genealogy of Morality]]''
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[[La beauté est une promesse de bonheur]] is a dictum by [[Stendhal]]. It was first published as a footnote in his essay "[[On Love (Stendhal) |De l'amour]]" (On Love). [[La beauté est une promesse de bonheur]] is a dictum by [[Stendhal]]. It was first published as a footnote in his essay "[[On Love (Stendhal) |De l'amour]]" (On Love).
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Kant's famous definition of the beautiful. "That is beautiful," says Kant, "which pleases without interesting." Without interesting! Compare this definition with this other one [..] by Stendhal, who once called the beautiful une promesse de bonheur. Here, at any rate, the one point which Kant makes prominent in the aesthetic position is repudiated and eliminated—le désinteressement. Who is right, Kant or Stendhal? --Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

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La beauté est une promesse de bonheur is a dictum by Stendhal. It was first published as a footnote in his essay "De l'amour" (On Love).



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