Plato claims that poetry is two stages removed from the truth. ... Hence, Plato says that artists understand little of what they are representing. Plato has three main objections to poetry – ethical, philosophical and pragmatic. ... In the text, Plato represents his arguments as a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon. ... Some like Plato, dream of a well governed society and take pleasure in its perfection. ...

• Word Count: 1025
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• Grade Level: High School

However, that is not the perfect republic outlined in Plato's The Republic. ... Much like Thomas Moores Utopia, Plato's state was highly regulated and strictly controlled. ... For the leaders, Plato wanted communal living and even communal spouses. ... Plato also pays notice to the need of the true government to not allow any other revolution against it. ... Across the world, in Texas, United States, another group felt them same as Plato. ...

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Within the assignment there are several sections, the first section will consider three definitions of aesthetics considering the views of Plato, Nietzsche and Ruskin, the second, third and fourth sections will consider the following works: The Roses of Heliogabalus by Sir Lawrence Almadema, The Hay Wain by John Constable and Ophelia by John Everett Millais respectively. ... I have chosen Plato, Nietzsche and Ruskin to illustrate how I understand aesthetics. Plato states For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms...out of that he should create fair thou...

• Word Count: 2825
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Great philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and 3rd century philosopher Plotinus, as well as many contemporary philosophers such as Nietzsche, Marx, Wittgenstein, Bell, Collingwood, Dickie, Wollenheim and Barthes have argued its" definition and come up with their own numerous definitions. ... According to Plato and classical aesthetics, what we see on canvas is a second interpretation of an interpretation. ... This is much like Plato's ideal form theory: only people who are intelligent (mainly philosophers such as himself) can see these ideal forms and say what they are. ...

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Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 and passed on in 1910 at the age of eighty-eight. Being born into one of Russia's great families of aristocracy was a positive for Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his writings of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also wrote What is Art, which is what will be d...

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• Grade Level: High School

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 and passed on in 1910 at the age of eighty-eight. Being born into one of Russia's great families of aristocracy was a positive for Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his writings of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also wrote What is Art, which is what will be d...

• Word Count: 814
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 and passed on in 1910 at the age of eighty-eight. Being born into one of Russia's great families of aristocracy was a positive for Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his writings of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also wrote What is Art, which is what will be d...

• Word Count: 814
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the attempts to define art you will find many theories and insights varying from one interpreter to another. From Plato to Picasso, realism to cubism – there lies no distinct line of defining words of art. However, one theory, by Leo Tolstoy, suggest it is not in our perception of art which def...

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It derives the existential character of the ecological crisis and its life threatening character not only from the so-called 'Reports of the Club of Rome' and from other theoretical and empirical investigations, but in particular from Plato's theorem of the 'plenitude' of a cosmic order. ...

• Word Count: 4223
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• Grade Level: High School

WH Walsh wrote the book Hegelian Ethics in 1969 in an attempt to make clear the philosophy and writings of a philosopher that was neglected by other philosophers for more than a generation. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, was unpopular mostly for his difficult writing style, but also because of the w...

• Word Count: 2517
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School