2. In what manner may the philosophical ideas of Spinoza and Fichte
lead to a want of appreciation of the idea of beauty?
3. In what relation does the comic stand to its limitations and its
various contrasts?
The three questions which were to be replied to in lectures before the
University ran as follows:
1. Show, through poems in our literature, to what extent poetry may
venture to set itself the task of presenting the Idea in a form
coinciding with the philosophical understanding of it?
2. Point out the special contributions to a philosophical definition of
the Idea made by Aesthetics in particular.