Kulturowe peregrynacje zapomnianego języka rozumu i milczącej idei piękna
Cultural peregrinations of the forgotten language of reason and the tacit idea of beauty

Summary/Abstract: The forgotten language of reason and the tacit idea of beauty are metaphors for cognitive and performative conventions present in European culture. The former refers to a radical thesis hidden in Plato’s well-known and frequently discussed parable of the cave, used in his dialogue The Republic. The latter, on the other hand, permeates ancient Greek artistic practice and constitutes a constant point of reference (and unwritten rule) for modern artistic practices. Both issues, Plato’s radical thesis and the idea of beauty (both as present in art and as a theoretical aesthetic concept), have been extensively discussed, but they have not been linked, in part because they were perceived as belonging to different disciplines – the former was considered primarily in an ontological context, the latter exclusively in an aesthetic one. The considerations presented in this article attempt to combine them into a coherent whole in the context of the concept of tacit knowledge.

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