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Strictly in Aesthetics terms Batteux sets the single principle for fine arts in imitation of nature, and this in terms of ideal of perfection to make a harmonious whole: "let's choose the most beautiful parts of nature, to make an exquisite whole, more perfect then nature, but never ending to be
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Book I, part I: "à faire un choix des plus belles parties de la nature pour en former en tout exquis, qui fùt plus parfait que la nature elle-méme, sans cependant cesser d'étre naturel". See: TOSCANO A. (1991). Charles Batteux: Les Quatre Poëtiques. RIVISTA DI ESTETICA, vol. 39; p. 67-78,
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the decisive step towards the system of the fine arts was taken by the Abbé Batteux in his famous and influential treatise ... the first to set forth a clearcut system of the fine arts in a treatise devoted entirely to this subject.
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see A. Toscano,“La Morale d’Épicure” di Charles Batteux ed il principio del “secondo natura”, in “Scienze e Ricerche” n. 42, 1 dicembre 2016, ISSN: 2283-5873, pp. 20–29.
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are arts ("assemblages of rules for doing well"), for producing fine or beautiful things ("which please" of themselves), always "in imitation of
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on "a single principle", and its views were widely accepted, not only in France but throughout Europe.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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natural". In this concept, clearly, Batteux follows a long tradition, present at least in
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was among the first attempts at a history of philosophy, and in his work on
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The reputation thus gained, confirmed by his translation of
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Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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Cours d'études à l'usage des élèves de l'école militaire
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His philosophical writings were 121:, and after teaching in the colleges of 84: 628:Academic staff of the Collège de France 335:MĂ©moires de l'AcadĂ©mie des Inscriptions 590: 380: 285: 471:FĂ©lix-Julien-Jean Bigot de PrĂ©ameneu 255:For his work "La Morale d'Épicure" 13: 423:Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon 14: 644: 618:Members of the AcadĂ©mie Française 608:People from Ardennes (department) 623:18th-century French philosophers 351:Renaissance Thought and the Arts 297: 129:, was appointed to the chair of 633:French male non-fiction writers 503:Lucien-Anatole PrĂ©vost-Paradol 356: 340: 1: 278: 238:Histoire des causes premières 199:Histoire des causes premières 145:(translated into English as 96: 7: 191:Principes de la littĂ©rature 10: 649: 269:Giovanni Battista Armenini 417: 179:AcadĂ©mie des Inscriptions 58: 46: 28: 21: 431:Jacques-BĂ©nigne Bossuet 320:Encyclopædia Britannica 205:in forty-five volumes. 187:Cours de belles lettres 103:Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil 36:Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil 479:Mathieu de Montmorency 463:Antoine-Marin Lemierre 171: 93: 347:Paul Oskar Kristeller 265:Leon Battista Alberti 166: 141:. His 1746 treatise 117:. In 1739 he came to 88: 559:Ambroise-Marie CarrĂ© 439:Melchior de Polignac 101:Batteux was born in 519:Paul Thureau-Dangin 495:Jean-Jacques Ampère 224:. He held that the 535:Maurice de Broglie 527:Pierre de La Gorce 408:AcadĂ©mie française 183:AcadĂ©mie française 181:(1754) and of the 94: 585: 584: 487:Alexandre Guiraud 273:Sebastiano Serlio 271:and more back in 139:Collège de France 69: 68: 40:Kingdom of France 640: 578: 570: 562: 554: 546: 543:Eugène Tisserant 538: 530: 522: 514: 506: 498: 490: 482: 474: 466: 458: 450: 447:Odet-Joseph Giry 442: 434: 426: 401: 394: 387: 378: 377: 371: 360: 354: 344: 338: 324: 315:Batteux, Charles 303: 301: 300: 294: 197:(1758), and the 162:P. O. 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Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil
Kingdom of France
philosopher
philosopher
aesthetics

Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil
Ardennes
theology
Reims
Paris
Lisieux
Navarre
Greek
Roman philosophy
Collège de France
beauty
taste
P. O. Kristeller
Horace
Académie des Inscriptions
Académie française
John Locke
Voltaire
sensualism
fine arts
poetry
Epicurus
Gassendi
Epicureanism

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