Plato's Republic
Title: Plato's Republic
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1496 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Plato's Republic
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1496 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
What does Plato have against poets? In what sense may all art
(even music) be imitation?
Plato's belief was that art is fundamentally based on imitation. It
was this imitation which made art inferior, combined with the
unsuitable moral content of some art. Plato's condemnation of art is
seen by some as too rationalist and "depriving it of all its charms" (Otto
Apelt).
Modern objections to Plato's theory of art assert that he fails to
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real creative element. As Verdenius puts it: "True art does not lapse
into flat realism, but it strives to transcend the material world...in true
art likeness does not refer to common-place reality, but to ideal Beauty."
But the imitation lies on a lower level of reality than its subject -as Plato
points out, the painter paints the superficial appearance and so "the art
of representation is therefore a long way removed from truth."