Practice question · True or false
Hegel ordered the arts by how far the material is subordinated to the idea.
Hints
- His sequence runs architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry.
- Architecture is the most burdened by matter and poetry the least.
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True
Why
True, and the ordering encodes a real observation whatever one makes of the metaphysics: the arts differ enormously in how much sheer material must be overcome before anything can be expressed. A building must stand up before it can mean anything, and a poem need only be uttered.
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