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Does an accurate likeness give knowledge, or merely look knowledgeable without teaching what is good?
Republic X joins an epistemic critique of imitation with a political and educational worry that painting and tragedy may address the soul's non-rational part.
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Plato's Aesthetics
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §3.3 Republic 10: the copy-making arts and the soul
Open sourceReducing Plato's aesthetics to ‘all art is bad’ misses his other discussions of beauty, inspiration, and educational imitation.
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Plato's Aesthetics
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: Introduction; §1–§3, contrasts among beauty, inspiration, and imitation
Open sourceRepublic X asks poetry and images to answer for their epistemic and political effects.
Around 380 BCE
Why seek fear and grief in tragedy when we avoid them in life, and what do we learn there?
The Poetics treats imitation as a natural human mode of learning and tragedy as a composed imitation that reveals patterns of action.
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Aristotle's Aesthetics
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §3 Imitation; §4 Tragedy
Open sourceThe claim that tragedy effects catharsis of pity and fear remains disputed among readings of purgation, purification, and clarification.
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Aristotle's Aesthetics
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §4.4 Catharsis
Open sourceThe Poetics makes tragic plot and emotion objects of analysis.
Around 335 BCE
Immanuel Kant · Critique of the Power of Judgment
Why can “I like it” carry the expectation that you too ought to find it beautiful?
Kant's pure judgment of beauty rests on disinterested pleasure rather than desire to possess or use the object.
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Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2.1 The judgment of beauty: disinterestedness
Open sourceA judgment of beauty claims subjective universality—rightful agreement from others—without relying on a determinate concept or proof.
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Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2.2 Universality and §2.4 Necessity
Open sourceThe third Critique joins personal pleasure to the possibility of shared judgment.
1790
John Dewey · Art as Experience
Can cooking, making, or moving become art when an ordinary activity gains tension and consummation?
Dewey criticizes the ‘museum conception’ that isolates art objects from the conditions and rhythms of ordinary experience.
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Dewey's Aesthetics
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §1.1 The Museum Conception of Art
Open sourceFor Dewey, aesthetic experience is not passive spectatorship but an organized transaction with an environment that becomes one consummated experience.
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Dewey's Aesthetics
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2 Experience and §4 Having an Experience
Open sourcePublished in New York, Art as Experience returns art to the rhythms of living.
1934 · New York · 출판