ABSTRACT
Another doctrine of Group B, concerns, V, Genius. The distinction between classes of objects in virtue of their origin is well-known in many scientific fields; and common objects also are often identified by this means. Thus when we refer to Madeira, we have in view certain wines grouped together as coming from that source; and so it has been supposed that we know a work of art or recognize beauty as the creation of a certain type of man. Thus we find Professor Külpe in a lengthy discussion of ‘The Conception and Classification of Art’ (University of Toronto Studies, Vol. 2, 1907) taking as his starting point the definition, ‘Art is the product of genius – according to Kant and Schopenhauer’, and objecting that genius produces scientific work as well, and that in the productions of works of art, ‘more modest talent than genius is also acknowledged’. Light on the nature of genius from this point of view is thrown by doctrines which appear in Bergsonian literature. 1
