I: Hostility to Art
According to Plato, man is not capable of comprehending idealistic form; thus, he must limit himself to the realistic. Art sways us from the society that man should make and at that we must turn to the scientific. Ideals should be left to the philosophers who so find meaning to it and artists should not create art in the same way philosophers create meaning.
II: Plato: Beauty is and Idea
It should be noted that, within Plato's and Aristotle's philosophies, one can find that the artistic concept can be found. Both clarified what it means for the aesthetic to be considered "beautiful" or "ideal". While their philosophies shared a relation that arts is considered to be a likeness of sorts, Plato strayed from Aristotle in a sense that art should be likened more to the concept of the ideal. Plato states that art is better off mimicking the abstract such as harmony and order as it gives man the ideals that the society should itself try to imitate.
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