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(1729-1797) Irish writer. One of the best-known aesthetic treatises of the century is "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful" (1757) by Edmund Burke.
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Edmund Burke
"Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was a British statesman and philosopher whose contribution to the philosophy of aesthetics was to argue that our enjoyment of beauty is not based upon any measure of intellectual clarity."

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