Chateau, Dominique <br/><br/>
Aesthetics was born out of the (relative) downgrade of beauty. A contribution to the knowledge of Lord Shaftesbury’s philosophical work 

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<br/><br/> Shaftesbury, at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, anticipated a number of theories that would become known as more or less original or innovative. In particular, through a theory of beauty inspired by antiquity and supported by a neo-Platonic philosophy of nature, he took into account natural anomalies, grandiose spectacles, and monstrous formations.Added to this, he developed a theory of formed/forming form, which anticipated Luigi Pareyson’s theory of formativity.