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ART: AS VIEWED BY PHILOSOPHY
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Humanities- study aspects of human society and culture
Fields of Discipline
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PHILOSOPHY
LITERATURE
RELIGION
ART
MUSIC
HISTORY
Philosophy -
field of discipline that attempts to explain almost all aspects of human
existence; Philia (Love) and Sophia (Wisdom);
Aesthetics -
Reasoning, thought and thinking
Philosophical study of beauty and taste.
Appreciating the beauty of an art (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THREE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR VIEWS ABOUT ARTS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PLATO
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Known for his famous Dialogues (Socrates Dialogues)
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Good Literary Stylist and Good Storyteller
THEORIES OF ART
According to Plato
1. ART IS IMITATION- (Theory of Mimesis); art is copy of a copy which leads
people further from away the truth.
2. ART IS DANGEROUS- art has power to stir emotions. So the arts should not go
uncensored.
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Proposed the difference between Good and Beautiful
Good- presents itself in some action
Beautiful- exists even in motionless objects or things
POETS IMITATE THREE THINGS
According to Aristotle
1. Things or events which have been or still are;
2. Things which are said to be seen and are probable; and
3. Things which essentially are.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMMANUEL KANT
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German, Enlightenment Philosopher
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In 1973, he wrote Observations on the Feelings of the Beautiful and the Sublime
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“Beauty does not rest on the properties of the objects or things, but rather on the
manner in which people respond to these objects or things.”
TYPES OF TASTE
According to Immanuel Kant
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UNIVERSAL TASTE- Non-aesthetic and does not consider the beauty of the
work or the mastery of the artist, but rather, the artwork is appreciated for what it
is.
Example: Mona Lisa of Leonardo Da Vinci
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SUBJECTIVE TASTE- Doesn’t focus on the properties of the object itself but
rather on the pleasure one experiences as he responds to it.
Example: Successfully arouse personal emotions
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WORDS TO PONDER: Art, like philosophy, reflects reality in its relation to man, and
depicts man, his spiritual world, and the relations between individuals in their interaction
with the world. (Hegel et al. 1927)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------References:
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Ferrer, M. C., Mangahas, T. L., Geron, C., Santos, M., Velasco, V., & Trinidad, J.
L. (2018). Art: As Viewed by Philosophy. Art Appreciation. Sucat, Muntinlupa
City: Panday-Lahi Publishing House, Inc.
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Georg Wilhelm F. Hegel, Sämtliche Werke, Dritter Band, "Philosophische
Propädeutik, Gymnasialreden und Gutachten über den Philosophie-Unterricht",
Fr.
Frommans
Verlag,
Stuttgart,
1927,
S.
46.
Retrieved
from:https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialecticalmaterialism/ch01-s05.html
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Meaning of Humanities. Retrieved from http://shc.stanford.edu/what-are-thehumanities. (2018, July 7)
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PREPARED BY:
HAZEL GRACE C. GUAN
1-C1
BS PSYCHOLOGY