Beauty in the Works of Saadi and Opinions of Croce

Among aesthetic theorists there are two distinct insights: one celebrates originality of nature and the other one celebrates originality of meaning. The first group seeks art in the objective world while the second group seeks it in the subjective world. One of the followers of the second theory was Bendetto Croce, the Italian philosopher. Croce theorizes that beauty is intuition and revelation, which is the same as perceiving beauty. Beauty is not an inborn attribute of phenomena, because it resides in the ego of the perceiver. The present study explored the works of Saadi to conclude that he had been more interested in objective beauty and originality of meaning years before Croce. Moreover, it was concluded that more than half of the aesthetic topics discussed in Saadi's poetry stressed subjective innate beauty.