Influence of Western Thinkers on Hamza Baba's Aesthetic Thoughts

Abstract

This research paper discusses in detail the similarities with and influence of Western philosophers on Hamza Baba's poetry in terms of aesthetic thoughts. Hamza Baba seems heavily influenced by Socrates, Plato, Saint Augustine, Hogart, Winckelmann, Edmund Burke, Richard Price and Theodore Lipps. In his aesthetic thoughts: aesthetic intuition, perfectionism, diversity and variety, beauty and sublimity, Einfuhlung, dynamic theory of beauty and aesthetic rationalism are highly significant.