more from this thinker
|
more from this text
Single Idea 2163
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art
]
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.
Gist of Idea
Artists should be excluded from a law-abiding community, because they destroy the rational mind
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.371 BCE], 605b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.358
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[value of art for individuals and in society]:
2135
|
Truth is closely related to proportion
[Plato]
|
2163
|
Artists should be excluded from a law-abiding community, because they destroy the rational mind
[Plato]
|
20394
|
The purpose of art is to reveal to Spirit its own nature
[Hegel, by Davies,S]
|
21794
|
The main purpose of art is to express the unity of human life
[Hegel]
|
20415
|
Art forms a bridge between the sensuous world and the world of pure thought
[Hegel]
|
8116
|
The will-less contemplation of art brings a liberation from selfhood
[Schopenhauer, by Gardner]
|
4174
|
Man is more beautiful than anything else, and the loftiest purpose of art is to reveal his nature
[Schopenhauer]
|
7276
|
All art is quite useless
[Wilde]
|
23933
|
Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state
[Bell,C]
|
23935
|
Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life
[Bell,C]
|
20406
|
Art clarifies the artist's mind and feelings, thus leading to self-knowledge
[Collingwood, by Davies,S]
|
20436
|
Art leads to mental health, and mental clarity
[Beardsley,M, by Carroll,N]
|
22715
|
Great art proves the absurdity of art for art's sake
[Murdoch]
|
7980
|
In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object
[Baudrillard]
|