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Daryl Bambic

Plato: A Theory of Forms | Issue 90 | Philosophy Now - 0 views

  • tradition of scepticism,
  • we live in a world which is not an easy source of true, ie, eternal, unchanging knowledge
  • Nothing is ever permanent:
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  • it is also unreliable
  • 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).
  • The Idea or Form of a triangle and the drawing we come up with is a way of comparing the perfect and imperfect.
  • If we can conceive the Idea or Form of a perfect triangle in our mind, then the Idea of Triangle must exist.
  • true and reliable knowledge rests only with those who can comprehend the true reality behind the world of everyday experience.
  • Plato’s philosopher-kings, who are required to perceive the Form of Good(ness) in order to be well-informed rulers.
  • already present in a person’s mind, due to their soul apparently having been in the world of the Forms before they were born.
  • Forms cannot be discovered through education, only recalled.
  • cave [see Allegory of the Cave]
Daryl Bambic

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF PLATONISM « Studying the Humanities - 0 views

  • Plato’s philosophy has lasted “almost two and a half thousand years” and has “profoundly influenced”
  • allegorical ‘Myth of the Cave’
  • rying to explain how the appearance of things and the reality that stands behind these appearances work within the human condition”
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  • 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
Daryl Bambic

The Art Instinct - The Frontal Cortex - 0 views

  • What began with a few horses on the walls of a French cave has blossomed into a human obsession
  • desire for beauty is firmly grounded in evolution, a side effect of the struggle to survive and reproduce
  • sate a biological drive
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  • 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.
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      This is the contrary opinion to the one that Denis Dutton is proposing about 'art as a biological instinct'.
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