Plato 's Artistic Negative Conception And Ancient Greek Society

Plato in the republic, in the law of represented by Homer, Hersey Russia’s Greekliterature and art has carried on the traditional poetry criticism and ridicule, he wasopposed to art, opposed in his utopia artist.In Plato’s eyes, the art be devalued for theeducation of the accessory tools, he thinks that art are too far away from the truth, isbut a low-level tricks and tricks, make the person can’t know the idea of supremegood, art is lewd, seduce, risque, sink down, negative effects on the mind andcharacter that ultimately brought disaster to the city-state society.For maintaining thephilosophy and virtue, must abandon art, Plato on literature and art must serve thepolitical and social moral requirements.This is a political tool’s poetics.The ideology of the literary tendency is Greek Plato times fundamentallimitations of aesthetics, it is limited by the cognitive thinking ability, also has the citygovernance needs profound reasons.His attack is both the metaphysical concept ofliterature and art theory of philosophy of poetry and literature and art as "concept" of"imitation imitation" disgraced, and social situation at that time, his condemnation ofliterature and art and accuse the response is a special social and historical background,social status made him unable to love art, Plato’s political and ethical issues to theattention of a dilute his literature and art as a independent discipline study interest:Plato’s fifth century BC Greek democracy unrest decline period, social reality in messmiserable for philosophers to be bent on the artistic heaven and earth;Ideology andculture on the rise of rationalism, the demise of the mythological thinking, theawakening of rational spirit indicates the time spirit in the transformation, the needs ofevery aspect of social life are also changed dramatically, in this case, the opposition toemotional and imaginative feature of art is the inevitable reaction.Plato tries to savethe crisis of the city-state to fail, as a result, negative effect of one-sided exaggerated,but can’t see as a special spiritual production mode in grasping the world of literatureand art, to reveal the truth, and perfect human nature of positive significance, so it isconcluded that the art theory of negative point of view.His ideal state in exile literature and art, in the modern western humanismphilosophers "poem" and "thinking" the harmony of the return path, its essence andmeaning has been deep in the halls of glory transparent and clear, sense of art isgradually restored, it is no longer lower than philosophy.