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Problem koherentnog razumevanja pojma umetnosti u Platonovoj filozofiji
Problem of Coherent Understanding of the Idea of Art in Plato’s Philosophy

Author(s): Marica Rajković
Subject(s): Poetry, Epistemology, Aesthetics, Ancient Philosphy, Ontology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: Plato; idea; art; μίμησις; poetry; Hegel; spirit;

Summary/Abstract: Autor’s main intention is contained in an attempt to show that the main source of problemacy of coherent understanding of the idea of art in Plato’s philosophy lies in interpretators resistance to deduce this idea from the entity of Plato’s philosophy – since the idea of art is primarely ontological, and derivately aestethical, educational and cultural phaenomenon. The paper contains an explication of distinction between the modern perception of the idea of art (which alows the elevation of particular area of mimetic poetry to the level of the idea of art) and Ancient Greek’s idea of art, which is understood as the „highest form of spirit“ in Hegel’s philosophy. It is the overlook of that distinction that lead to the modern understanding which inadequately cosiders Plato’s critic of poetry as Plato’s attempt to „forbid“ or „dispossess“ the art out of the polis. The autor’s intetion is – reviving the Plato’s thought – to show that this kind of attempt in context of Ancient Greece is not only arbitrary, but also impossible, because the context of Ancient Greece epoch isn’t and couldn’t be anything else than – art!

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 117-128
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian