Thursday, April 25, 2013

Samantha King - Aristotle - Outside Reading #2


Also, just like for Plato, my Ancient and Medieval World History book offers an explanation on Aristole:

“Aristotle did not accept Plato’s theory of ideal forms. Instead he believed that by examining individual objects, we can perceive their form and arrive at universal principles, but that these principles do not exist as a separate higher world of reality beyond material things but are part of these things themselves. Aristotle’s interest, then, lay in analyzing and classifying things based on thorough research and investigation. “

Therefore, Aristotle believed all art was representational. Having a separate reading on Aristotle helped me to understand his theory much more than I did before.

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