Plato & Aristotle on Aesthetics

[@Robinson8491]

Aaah the Aristotle we know and love

[@yonathanasefaw9001]

Very fascinating!

[@spazthespasticcolonel1054]

I'm really enjoying the content on Aesthetics - thank you! I find it interesting that both Nehamas and Danto wrote excellent books on Nietzsche.

[@CR3199]

Thank you again! Where do you get these videos? They are awesome

[@eternaldoorman5228]

The art of carefully chosen clips!

[@irevelato]

Lovely! You have a new subscriber.

[@Wandering_Mindset]

Thank you for the video, very interesting.

[@eternaldoorman5228]

Aristotle also recognised comedy as an art, didn't he? He only wrote about tragedy in the Poetics though. I figured he left comedy as an exercise for the reader.

[@ericmiller6056]

Supposedly, there was a second book of the Poetics, now lost, in which he discussed comedy.

[@donaldist7321]

is it just me or do most Plato busts look like JD Vance with a curly beard?

[@Doortodoorgeek]

I still think beauty is a human construct

[@thistle7594]

It is an observable truth

[@JoePalau]

It’s both and for me. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and in the object beheld. The combination of the two is what humans call “beauty.” BTW, that’s John Dewey in “Art as Experience.” Just saying … 😊

[@BlackSabotage100]

Your mom is a human construct

[@alpetterson9452]

Plato?... Plato?... is this the guy who actually thought cowardly men were reborn as women? lol. I hope you're not suggesting we take him seriously.

[@BlackSabotage100]

The fuck are you talking about bruh? Get your facts straight

[@ConnorThompson-w2k]

If we judged all thinkers on their ocassional and isolated mistakes, then we would have to renounce the entire western tradition of philosophy

[@alpetterson9452]

@@ConnorThompson-w2k You sound as though you think philosophy has actually benefited mankind, but credit should only be given where it's due. As for Plato, that wasn't the only dodgy thing he said. I don't know whether you've noticed that university courses only advertise in terms of philosophy helping one to be a critical thinker and researcher. Not for philosophy for itself.

[@ConnorThompson-w2k]

@@alpetterson9452 But universities can only teach this type of critical thinking and research through the study of philosophical texts. You don't realise that we don't read Plato or Kant because these thinkers are objectively correct. They may or may not be, that is not the point. The study of philosophers allows us to gain perspective, to develop the skill of enquiry, to able to approach things with a method, to look at things and analyse them a certain way, to find out what we can say about reality. Plato is one of the greatest in this regard, for even if you do not agree with, say, the theory of forms, you can acknowledge its profundity, and how it is a reasonable response to the problem of knowledge. It is an incredibly important theory, even if most philosophers do not believe it to be true. But what of that?

[@alpetterson9452]

@@ConnorThompson-w2k I don't think that's true. Otherwise studying philosophy would be a prerequisite for studying math, engineering, politics etc etc. And that's clearly not the case. Critical thinking is as fundamental to these other professions as being religious is to understanding morality. The 2 DO NOT go together. Also it is no good to just ignore the mistakes of philosophers and pass them off as just a mistake. If you value criticism then it should be used without favour. Not simply forgotten when it doesn't suit an argument. That's being truthful, even-handed and rigorous. I struggle to think of any use philosophy has been practically. How many mouths it's actually fed or how much closer we are to answering age old questions.