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But Plato also believed that this is not the whole story. Behind this unreliable world of appearances is a world of permanence and reliability. Plato calls this more real (because permanent) world, the world of ‘Forms’ or ‘Ideas’ (eidos/idea in Greek).

aises questions on the nature of education and enlightenmen

ndividual perceptions create the lived reality

Our perceptions create our reality

light can “pain the eyes

deception of the shadows”

en (sic) lacking education would come to believe that the shadows they see are the real thing

Plato optimistically holds that if one ever comes to know the Good, one becomes good. Ignorance is the only sin. No one would willingly do wrong

scientific response to the idea that art is a “social construction,” driven by the fads of society

he basic layout was identical. In each case, people craved a painting that featured a large body of blue water, some open grass, a human figure and a few animals.

hard-wired preferences, which developed when we were Pleistocene hunter-gatherers roaming the African savannah. The landscapes we find most beautiful are simply those from which we evolved.

Such unpleasant works of art are inspired, Dutton says, by a “blank-slate view of culture,” which assumes that the mind can learn to appreciate just about anything.

explaining kitsch.