Philosophical Perspective of Arts

PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVE OF ARTS
BSTM 2-ANNEX
Marc Jhastin Banez Shanna Mae V. Floreas
Chin-Chin S. Mercado Ishie Lane A. Lozano
Nikka G. Catolico Freddie Burce
Topics to be discussed in
Philosophical Perspective of Arts
 Art as mimesis by Plato
 Art as a representation by Aristotle
 Art for art sake by Kant
Philosophical Perspective of Arts
Philosophical Perspective
Points to the nature of art, including such concepts as
interpretation, representation, expression, and form. It is closely
related to aesthetics, the philosophical study of beauty and taste.
Some of these philosophical perspectives are:
1. Art is mimesis (PLATO).

Mimesis is derived from the Greek word "mimos” meaning to
imitate. Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term that carries a
wide range of meanings which include imitation, representation,
mimicry, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling,
the act of expression and the presentation of the self (Gebauer.
1992)
Mimesis was an idea that governed the creation of works of art,
in particular. with correspondence to the physical world understood
as a model for beauty, truth, and the good. Plato contrasted
mimesis or imitation with diegesis or narrative. After Plato, the
meaning of mimesis eventually shifted toward a specific literary
function in Ancient Greek society and its use has changed and been
reinterpreted many times since.
1. Art is mimesis (PLATO).

According to Plato, all artistic creation is a form of imitation: that
which really exists, in "the world of ideas" is a type created by God;
the concrete things man perceives in his existence are supernatural
representations of this ideal type. Therefore. the painter, the
tragedian and the musician are imitators of an imitation, twice
removed from the truth. For example, God created a bed; the artist
created a bed; the artist in turn, painted the bed in this canvas.
2. Art as representation (ARISTOTLE).

Similar to Plato's writings about mimesis, Aristotle also defined
mimesis as the perfection, and imitation of nature. Art is not only
imitation but also the use of mathematical ideas and symmetry in
the search for perfection. The timeless and contrasting being with
becoming. Nature is full of changes but art can also search for what
is everlasting (Auerbach, 1953).
2. Art as representation (ARISTOTLE).
Aristotle's Poetics is often referred to as the counterpart to his
Platonic conception of poetry. Poetics is his treatise on the subject
of mimesis. Aristotle was not against literature. As such, he stated
that human beings are mimetic beings, feeling an urge to create text
and art that reflect and represent reality.
Aristotle thought of drama as being an imitation of an action and

of tragedy as falling from a higher to a lower estate and so being
removed to a less ideal situation in more tragic circumstances than
before. He posited the characters in tragedy as being better than
the average human being and those of comedy as being worse.
3. Art for Art Sake (KANT).

In the minds of late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-
century philosophers, the role of art could nothing less than to
create beauty. The beautiful, for Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804), is
that which without any concept is recognized as the object of
necessary satisfaction. In other words, the appropriate stance of the
spectator, perceiving beauty is one of indifference. This indifference
does not imply, as it would in the contemporary sense today, that
one is uninvolved; it simply means acknowledging that the beauty
possessed by the object is necessary and that the agreement as to
the beauty would be universal.
3. Art for Art Sake (KANT).

In contradiction, the taste is always ordered upon the indifferent
but this indifference is also the key to the recognition of the
universality of beauty. The status of aesthetic judgment is not
empirical but logical. based upon the powers of human reason and
rationality, which excludes internal and external purposiveness or
interest. Kant introduces purposiveness without a purpose, allowing
the mind of the one who contemplates art freely to an unrestricted
play of the mental faculties. (Wilette, 2010)
As Kant wrote in the Critique of Judgment." For judging of
beautiful objects as such, the taste is requisite: but for beautiful art,
for the production of such objects genius is requisite. In a very
famous statement, he asserted that "genius is the talent or natural
gift which gives the rule to art.”
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PHILOSOPHICAL

1. Art is mimesis (PLATO).

1. Art is mimesis (PLATO).

2. Art as representation (ARISTOTLE).

Aristotle thought of drama as being an imitation of an action and

3. Art for Art Sake (KANT).

3. Art for Art Sake (KANT).

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