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Ideas for Chrysippus, L.A. Paul and Plato
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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 3. Artistic Representation
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Representation is two steps removed from the truth [Plato]
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Full Idea:
The province of representation is indeed two steps removed from the truth.
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From:
Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 602c)
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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art
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Artists should be excluded from a law-abiding community, because they destroy the rational mind [Plato]
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Full Idea:
We are right to refuse admission to artists in any community which is going to respect convention, because he destroys the rational mind and feeds the irrational - it is like destroying good citizens by giving ruffians power.
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From:
Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 605b)
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Truth is closely related to proportion [Plato]
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Full Idea:
Truth is closely related to proportion.
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From:
Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 486d)
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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
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What is fine is the parent of goodness [Plato]
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Full Idea:
Fineness is the father of goodness.
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From:
Plato (Hippias Major [c.392 BCE], 297b)
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Stoics say that beauty and goodness are equivalent and linked [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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Full Idea:
Stoics say the beautiful is the only good. Good is an equivalent term to the beautiful; since a thing is good, it is beautiful; and it is beautiful, therefore it is good.
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From:
report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.1.59
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