LESSON 3: PHILOSOPHICAL IMPORTANCE OF ART

Question 1

is the object of cognitive power, for we call beautiful things which give pleasure when they are seen

Answer 1

Beauty

Question 2

Plato in Symposium expounds that it is the Form of Beauty that is the object of.

Answer 2

love

Question 3

Plato’s theory of beauty is?

Answer 3

metaphysical

Question 4

Consideration of beauty is subjective and defends on the person looking at the thing. In this way it is said that
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Answer 4

RELATIVE BEAUTY

Question 5

It considers the view that a thing is beautiful by virtue of itself. Beauty is objective, and resides in the thing regardless of the people looking at it.

Answer 5

ABSOLUTE BEAUTY

Question 6

Ancient Greek philosopher (348- 267 BC) who formulated an idealist and metaphysical theory of beauty. He wrote The Dialogue and The Republic.

Answer 6

Plato

Question 7

Theory of beauty which asserts that real beauty is an idea that exist in the world of being. Things in this world are beautiful as appearances of the idea of beauty. Art is beautiful as imitation of things in this world.

Answer 7

AESTHETIC IDEALISM

Question 8

His understanding of beauty is not an unworldly one; he defines beauty as that which pleases when seen.

Answer 8

St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 9

Thomas utilises the term (integritas) in relation to beauty, it is meant as a “type of proportion” and is thus a criterion of the beautiful object that it is not impaired;

Answer 9

Integrity

Question 10

can be traced back to the Pre-Socratics (such as Pythagoras), then to Cicero and St. Augustine. Basic ontological proportion is expressed consistently with consonantia.

Answer 10

Proportion

Question 11

appeared in the Pseudo-Dionysius, Grosse- teste, and other mediaeval authors, Albertus Magnus influenced Thomas’s conception of claritas, which may be translated as resplendence, clarity, symmetry, or radiance

Answer 11

Clarity