Plato on Art and Beauty

by Alison Denham

Overview

This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230314405
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/29/2012
Series:	Philosophers in Depth
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

DORIT BARCHANA-LORAND specializes in the aesthetics and the philosophy of art and aesthetics MYLES BURNYEAT is an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge and was the fifth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, UK PIERRE DESTRÉE is Research Associate at the Fonds belge de la Recherche Scientifique and Associate Professor at the University of Louvain, Belgium G. R. F. ('JOHN') FERRARI is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA STEPHEN HALLIWELL is Professor in the School of Classics at St. Andrew's University, UK JESSICA MOSS is Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, UK IRIS MURDOCH was a novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, UK ALEXANDER NEHAMAS is the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA C. D. C. REEVE is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA DAVID SIDER is Professor of Classics at New York University, USA

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations viii

Acknowledgements x

Preface xi

Notes on Contributors xii

Editor's Introduction xiv

Part I Understanding Plato's Quarrel

1 From The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists Iris Murdoch 3

2 Plato and the Mass Media Alexander Nehamas 34

3 Art and Mimesis in Plato's Republic M. F. Burnyeat 54

Part II Art and Beauty: Before and Beyond Republic X

4 Plato's Early Aesthetics: The Hippias Major David Sider 75

5 'A Divinity Moving You': Knowledge and Inspiration in Plato's Ion Dorit Barchana-Lorand 84

6 The Philosopher's Antidote G. R. F. Ferrari 106

7 Plato on Tragic and Comic Pleasures Pierre Destrée 125

8 Plato on Begetting in Beauty C. D. C. Reeve 142

9 Beyond the Mirror of Nature: Plato's Ethics of Visual Form Stephen Halliwell 173

10 Art and Ethical Perspective: Notes on the Kalon in Plato's Laws Jessica Moss 205

Index 221