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Plato and many philosophers have a special disdain for poets(artists). Where they urge people to live among reality, artists paint a picture that can never be p
by resource_waste 2y ago
Plato and many philosophers have a special disdain for poets(artists). Where they urge people to live among reality, artists paint a picture that can never be possible.
There are ideas like: "Who knows what war looks like, a soldier? Or an artist? We get false ideas of war, and it corrupts our minds. Let us not pretend that the brain can fully separate our fiction media from what we are told is 'close enough' to real to be entertaining.
I worry most when it comes to expectations of interpersonal relationships. What poison is happening to the population when they read/watch unrealistic romances?
- pnut 2y agoA soldier telling a story from experience is a soldier artist. If Plato's point is that knowledge can only be derived through direct experience, then one must endure war to know what war looks like. If there is any value to be derived from the experiences of others, either through descriptions or related empathetic resonances, then those are dependent on communication and storytelling, and now we're in the realm of being effective at putting your reality into another's mind, and that is art. The authority or accuracy of your message doesn't negate that fact, and is entirely down to the individual in the receiving end in any case. Funny to hear a philosopher, whose entire domain is abstract thought and whose power and relationship to the world is through the art of communication, be so petty. Maybe that quote has more context?
- resource_waste 2y ago>If Plato's point is that knowledge can only be derived through direct experience Its not. Its that poets corrupt.