REPORTERS:
CABANOG, DORIMON, RAFON
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
ON ART
According to Plato artist are imitators
and art is just an imitation.
The things in this world are only
copies of the original, the ternal and
the true eternities that can only be
found in the world of forms
The theory of forms or theory of
ideas is Plato’s argument that non
physical forms (or ideas) represents
the most accurate reality.
FORM
 Is an objective “blue print” of
perfection. The forms are
perfect themselves because
they are unchanging, for
example we say we have
triangle drawn on a black
board. A triangle is a polygon
with three sides. The triangle
as it is on the black board far
from perfect.
 however, it is only the
intelligibility of the form
triangle that allows us to know
the drawing on the chalkboard
is triangle, and the form
“triangle” is perfect and
unchanging. It is exactly the
same whenever anyone
chooses to consider it.
PLATO WAS DEEPLY SUSPICIOUS OF
ARTS AND ARTISTS FOR TWO
REASON
1. They appeal to the emotion rather
than the rational faculty of men.
2. They imitate rather than to leads
one to reality.
SOCRATES
Just like Plato, he claimed that art is
just an imitation of imitation.
For Plato Art is dangerous because it
provides a petty replacement for the
real entities that can only be through
reasons.
ART AS A REPRESENTATION
 Plato’s most important student
in philosophy agreed with his
teacher that art is form of
imitation
 However, in contrast to his
teachers disgust, Aristotle
conceived of art as a
representing possible version
of reality.
 For him all kins of arts do not
aim to represent reality as it is
but to provide a vision of what
might be or the many
possibilities in reality.
Kant to have.
LEO TOLSTOY
Art is a communication of emotion.
Art places a huge part in
communication to its audience
emotions that the artist previously
experienced.
Tolstoy is fighting for the social
dimension of art. This means that art
serves as a mechanism of cohesion
for everyone.

ART AS A DISINTERESTED
JUDGEMENT

Emmanuel Kant considered the

judgement of beauty the cornerstone
of art, as something that can be
universal despite is subjectivity: and
therefore, art is innately autonomous
from specific interest
Every human being after perception
and the free play of his faculties,
should recognize the beauty that is
inherent in a work of art.
This is the kind of universality that is
judgement of beauty is assumed by