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Oman College of Management & Technology
Theories of aesthetic
(Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle…)
COURSE NAME: INTRODUCTION TO AESTHETIC
PROPOSED BY: DR.MOHAMED ALNEJEM
SEMESTER: FIRST 2015/2016
CHAPTER (2): -Theories of aesthetic (Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle…)
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GORGIAS:
Gorgias philosophy in Aesthetic:
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Born IN Italy
His philosophy is independent of the idea of truth.
His philosophy is based on the illusion.
It started with an idea to exist and statement to prove the impossibility
of existence and non-existence of both.
 Fine Arts affect the human psyche serving the senses of aesthetic
values.
 It ended the illusion theory when Georgias to link the aesthetic values
of euphoria and sensual pleasure.
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Discos express the beauty link to feel pleasure.
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Pythagoras:
Pythagoras philosophy in Aesthetic:
 Born in Greec 571 b.c
 his famous statement: the philosophical meditation linked to technical
tastings.
 She was able to apply this theory to the art of music.
 Philosophy differentiate into existence between the two levels:
 Reasonable level of presence and the level of perceived presence
 Philosophy says the duality of soul and body
 Put receptors on ten distinguished between the opposing parties, for
example recognize between male and female, good and evil ... etc.
 His philosophy has been able to formulate these philosophical ideas in
a mathematical formula came for the first time a standard of beauty.
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Socrates:
Socrates philosophy in Aesthetic:
Kitchen: is an example of the link between beauty and Mathematical Logic
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 Born in Greec
 The development of the basic conditions for a positive theory in art.
 Art, both beautiful art or industrial art has the function of serving
human life.
 Beauty is beauty meaningful.
 Does not care about beauty sensory.
 Socrates invite to arbitration mind in human behavior.
 Ruling on art by ethical standard through the hearts of people.
 Pleasure aesthetic standards are the kind of technical deterioration.
 Sensory criterion is not enough to create good art.
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Example: expresses the connection between beauty and morality
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Plato:
Plato philosophy in Aesthetic:
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 Born in Greec
 Fight deceive the senses in the art of sculpture and photography, and
demanded to maintain the correct proportions and Metrology
Engineering idealism.
 stay away from the perceived reality and attached achieved a world
which is good and right and beauty.
 returned to the divine source when he tried to interpret the love, the
love of the artist engine about beauty.
 look to the world's highest in terms of beauty and perfection and
immortality.
 Do not take genius of his mind only, but of emotion and sentiment.
 Love is not beautiful.
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PLATO QUESTION OF BEAUTY:
 Would you agree with Plato:
“There are things which are beautiful always and by themselves?
 Would agree with Protagoras:
“Man is the measure of all things: nothing else but the pleasures
of the eyes and ear”?
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