The average person believes also, that any true philosopher would also believe firmly in the free expression of ideas. ... Though Plato was a champion of rational thought, he made clear statements that popular forms of art and poetry must be interoperated in a way that is in the best interest of the state more specifically its guardians. ... Plato's perfect state was by no means a state that reflected our contemporary views of freedom of expression. ...

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Dadaism & Surrealism has helped to educate and shape the way people today view art and has led to a new form of expression in the modern world. ... It emerged largely in response to the atrocities and insanity, "the disillusion, defeatism, and insane butchery of World War 1" (William, Flemming, Arts & Ideas, 6th Edition, Syracuse New York, pp 423) and wanting to find, and experiment with new forms of expression attempting to revive the creative act. ... Where society valued rational the Dadaist embraced the irrational. ...

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In a way, it might have begun with the Age of Enlightenment and its drive toward a mastery of nature and society, with human reason at the center of everything, since which rationality had been considered the key to justice, morality, control, organization, understanding and happiness. ... It completely changed the way artist used form, style, content, genre, expression, etc. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Whether it be writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, or photographers, artists all over the world have striven to show people their views of the world, of people, and even of the universe itself. Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or repre...

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The whole Enlightenment project, argued Lyotard, has come to an end, how can we still meaningfully speak of human progress and the rational control of the life world after Auschwitz and Stalin's gulags. ...

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