The Quest for a Poetics of Goodness in Plato and Aristotle

The paper, which compares Plato and Aristotle’s different approaches towards artistic activity, is divided into three parts. The first part discusses Plato’s Ion on mimesis and technē, as well as the role that poetry plays in the Republic. The second section offers an account of Aristotle’s idea of...

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Autores:
Orozco, Dairo
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2012
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/36615
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/36615
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/26699/
Palabra clave:
Filosofía
Estética
Poetry
Goodness
Happiness
Mimesis
Aesthetic
Techne
Neoplatonic
Rights
openAccess
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Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:The paper, which compares Plato and Aristotle’s different approaches towards artistic activity, is divided into three parts. The first part discusses Plato’s Ion on mimesis and technē, as well as the role that poetry plays in the Republic. The second section offers an account of Aristotle’s idea of happiness as the end of action. Thelast section of this study deals with an attempt to reconcile Plato and Aristotle’s attitude towards mimetic art in a treatise by a Neoplatonic renaissance thinker, Torquato Tasso.