Prologue.

Aesthetics is the emotional perception of beauty introduced by Baumgarten (1714-1762) in Germany during the mid-18th century.
Aesthetics, with the goal of systematically interpreting aesthetic values, traces its philosophical origins back to ancient Greece.
To understand the perception of beauty in both the East and the West, we investigate the philosophical foundations of aesthetic judgment found in Greek aesthetics, Eastern Confucianism, Buddhism, Zen aesthetics, medieval aesthetics, Renaissance aesthetics, modern aesthetics, and contemporary aesthetics.


"Godel, Escher, Bach (1979)" by American cognitive scientist Douglas Richard Hofstadter (1945- ) serves as the inspiration for the creation of "Toegye, Gyeomjae, Chusa (2023)."
Hofstadter investigates the neural mechanisms of cognition in the lives and works of Godel, Escher, and Bach.
Austrian mathematician Kurt Godel (1906-1978) poses profound philosophical inquiries about formal logic, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematical systems.
Dutch printmaker Moritz Escher (1898-1972) ventures beyond the boundaries of reality and imagination by blending mathematical principles and aesthetics within the realm of surrealism.
German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) translates the counter-reformation and the upheaval that affected Northern Europe after the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) into dynamic, unconventional, and sensuous Baroque auditory art.


"Toegye, Gyeomjae, Chusa (2023)" is an encounter of philosophy and aesthetics recorded from an artist's monograph perspective.
Toegye Yi Hwang (1501-1570), a Confucian scholar of the Joseon Dynasty, firmly establishes the dualism of principle and vital forces based on the theory of principle superiority, which dualizes li-ki into enduring li and ephemeral qi.
Gyeomjae Jeong Seon (1676-1759), a painter from the later period of the Joseon Dynasty, reinterprets t

Prologue.
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Aesthetics is.
1. The Life of Toegye.
2. The Life of Gyeomjae.
3. The Life of Chusa Kim Jeong-hee.
Greek Aesthetics.
4. Toegye's Scholarship.
5. The Scholarship of Gyeomjae.
6. The Scholarship of Chusa.
Eastern Confucianism, Buddhism, Zen aesthetics
7. Toegye's Theory of the Four Sprouts and the Seven Emotions.
8. Gyeomjae's Realistic Landscape Painting.
9. Chusa's Calligraphy.
Medieval Aesthetics.
10. Toegye's Theory of the Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning.
11. Gyeomjae's Diamond Mountains.
12. Chusa's Painting.
Renaissance Aesthetics.
13. Toegye's Record of Self-Reflections.
14. Gyeomjae's Hanyang.
15. Chusa's Framed Picture and Vertical Couplet.
Modern Aesthetics.
16. A Cosmology Based on The Dualism of Principle and Vital Forces.
Contemporary Aesthetics.
References.