Poetry and Unreality is Plato's famous attack on poetry and by extension, all forms of art which are aimed at inducing pleasure. ... Art does not attempt to teach. ... Art is meant to be aesthetically pleasing. ... Banksy once said about art: "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.... Humanity doesn't live to merely form a well governed society. ...
This is majorly because they were the developers of art, science and religion in the European, Arabic and Judaic world (Guisepi). ... According to Plato, democracy is a good form of government (Sharma) and people tend to fancy this kind of government. ... Moreover, he came up with the theory that art emulates nature which has over the years been a platform for art classification in the western society (Guisepi). ... It is quite evident that the current western form of education still use some aspect of the great philosophers' ideas in conducting their scientific researches. This among oth...
Oyelade regularly explored Art Museums all across his newly settled home, in the National Heritage Memorial Fund's exhibition of Renaissance Artwork he saw Sir Joshua Reynold's Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers (ca. 1769) during a visit to Archbishop Tenison's. "That trip formed my beliefs of the importance to change the perspective of the young before they've had their minds set a certain way," Oyelade recalls, adding that his view of his own community developed and was altered through the interpretation of Sir Joshua Reynold's piece of Art. ... ...
An example would be the Golden Rectangle, (which is the only rectangle that can form into itself in a mollusk-shell shape until infinity - see below in Fibonacci Numbers section) or the Golden Section. (a line cut at "an extreme and mean ratio" - see below) Note how these simple shapes (i.e. the mollusk- shell,) appear most frequently in nature - snail shells, and even apple-seed stars that form a pentagram, have proportions to Phi. Geometric shapes of these (Golden Ratio) dimensions can also be found in magnificent works of art - and most mathematicians agree, they are magnificent because ...
Along with these works of writing and art, terms and concepts to define these works were established. ... In literary works such as "The Odyssey", "Allegory of the Cave" and "Antigone", and in such forms as "Sculptures", or the Parthenon, we are able to see these how the Greeks developed these new concept words. ... Ancient Greece was a civilization of great importance, giving new life to world literature, architecture, and art....
I share the opinion of the majority of the world in thinking that democracy is the best form of government. ... This form of government works well in the United States because there are many different kinds of people and different groups that vote in different ways. ... Another good part of democracy is the art of compromise. ...
During a time when monarchies and other forms of class-ranking governments dominated the western cultures, Athens was among the first, and certainly the most famous, to introduce a new form of government in which the citizens held the power: democracy. ... He stated, Naturally, since the smallest amount of intemperance and injustice, together with the highest scrupulousness in the pursuit of excellence, is to be found in the ranks of the better class, while within the ranks of the People will be found the greatest amount of ignorance, disorderliness, rascality- (The "Old Oligarch", p. 105) ...
During a time when monarchies and other forms of class-ranking governments dominated the western cultures, Athens was among the first, and certainly the most famous, to introduce a new form of government in which the citizens held the power: democracy. ... He stated, Naturally, since the smallest amount of intemperance and injustice, together with the highest scrupulousness in the pursuit of excellence, is to be found in the ranks of the better class, while within the ranks of the People will be found the greatest amount of ignorance, disorderliness, rascality- (The "Old Oligarch", p. 105) ...
In a sense we break free from our physical forms and now are an essence that is free to explore new worlds. ... Plato considered shadows, art and poetry, what you see is not necessarily what you get. With poetry and art you may be able to read the words but you may not understand the "real" meaning. ... The Forms showed us that even though we can see something does not mean we can see all of it and just because we cannot see something does not mean it does not exist. ...
Art to him consists of imitation from another imitation from another imitation and so on. ... Music affects everyone differently and while Plato's ideal city was protected from any "evil" amounting from music, I think that his ideals probably caused a form of evil - rebellion for expression? ...
Everyone is assigned one art to perform to the highest ability for the greater good of the community. ... As for the third point, he completely disagrees with Plato as he believes that individual happiness is what matters the most. "...to play in order to be serious; for amusement is a form of rest, and since we cannot work continuously we need rest" (Aristotle,1176B)." ... To abridge his criticisms and beliefs that were mentioned, Aristotle has contested that not only knowledge but also action is needed for virtue and thus happiness, that the virtues are not connected or linked in any way, an...
During the Hellenic and Hellenistic periods, the ancient Greeks were hard at work, making long-lasting contributions to art, poetry, drama, sports, mathematics, science and philosophy. ... Plato founded the Academy and came up with a new form of literature, dialogues and speech. ...
