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Definition:
An allegory comes from the Greek allos, which means "other" and agoreuein,
which means "to speak," and is used to describe some fictional narrative which is
supposed to continually, if implicitly, refer to some other structure of event or state
of affairs, whether political, social or natural. Fables are often forms of allegory,
where the actions of animals are used to represent the behavior or human beings in an
effort to show them the folly of some actions and the virtue of other actions.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
