TY - BOOK AU - Chateau,Dominique TI - Aesthetics was born out of the (relative) downgrade of beauty. A contribution to the knowledge of Lord Shaftesbury’s philosophical work PY - 2024///. N1 - 48 N2 - 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 UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-nouvelle-revue-d-esthetique-2024-1-page-149?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -