الخلفية المثالية لفلسفة الجمال عند أفلاطون

Abstract

This study examines the ideal background to the philosophy of Platonic beauty. Plato interpreted beauty as a simulation of divine beauty, and the ideal reasonable world, where there are faculties, spiritual perfection, aesthetic and moral truths. And to reach this ideal beauty, the philosopher must gradate the ranks of beauty, by freeing the soul from the constraint of the body, and keeping it away from vices, as shackling the soul and preventing it from achieving true beauty. This is what prompted Plato to present a position towards art and the arts; in his view, true art comes from the goddesses who inspire artists chosen by the gods, the owners of pure souls. Otherwise, it is considered a false art of indecency, which simulates simulation, that is, simulation of nature, which is a simulation of the ideal. Thus, we find Plato condemning the artist who takes the sensory world as a starting point in his arts,in his opinion this artist relies on illusion, does not carry any moral value, and does not aim for an honest truth, but is based on moving pleasures and instincts, and corrupting the minds of youngpeople.