Exam 10: Beauty

Schiller claimed that beauty can help us to develop morally because

According to Aristotle, one's aesthetic experience of laughing at someone is provoked by

Aristotle believed that the cathartic nature of drama

Kant believed that if you and a friend genuinely shared an aesthetic experience of a work of art, this would be because

Hegel described the art of the early nineteenth century as becoming steadily

According to Friedrich Schiller, including art and aesthetics as a part of children's education allows them to become less selfish and competitive, becoming better citizens as adults.

According to Plato, when we fall in love, we are really ​

What common thread links contemporary efforts at censoring movies and television and Plato's notion that some of the arts, including poetry, should be banned?

Why does Kant believe that sharing an aesthetic experience with others depends on having a disinterested perspective?

Plato believed that beauty was a transcendent value, surpassing ordinary, worldly reality, but he also appreciated how worldly beauty (and other aesthetic values that provoke emotional responses)can shape human behavior.   Write an essay on Plato's theory of beauty, linking this to his rationale for distinguishing between good art and bad art and to his argument (in The Republic )for promoting and banning or censoring bad art, especially tragedy.   Contrast Plato's theory with Aristotle's understanding of beauty, focusing, again, on tragedy. Which viewpoint seems more defensible, and why?

One implication of Plato's view of beauty is that artists should be socially responsible when they produce works of art.

You are an administrator in a school system charged with designing a new high school curriculum. You are under pressure, for economic reasons, to include only "essential" subjects in the curriculum. You're aware that most of your colleagues believe that "essential" subjects are limited to math, science, reading, writing, and history-but not art. In light of this, you decide to write a letter, in the form of an essay to your colleagues, that defends the inclusion of art classes and art appreciation in the curriculum, because of the essential educational value of art. Your essay should include the views of Confucius, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, although you are not limited to these points of view. If you've had a personal experience of the educational power of art, share that as well. Be specific about how educational values are linked to aesthetic values Also be specific about what "arts" and "art appreciation" you would include-formal art, and/or popular art?

Plato argued that much of Homer's poetry should be censored because

Socrates, in Plato's Symposium, argues that the seeker of beauty will come to recognize

Ortega y Gasset argued that because we can't spontaneously connect with modern or abstract art, we are forced to improvise new behaviors-behaviors lacking "sentiments and passions"-in order to relate to this new art.

What does it mean to seek a procedural definition of art? Give two examples of procedures that make something art.

Because of our philosophical doubts about the order and the meaning of the universe, many contemporary aestheticians argue that ​

Schopenhauer believed that music is a direct representation of the Will and that experiencing it allows us to get in touch with the most basic truth about ourselves, leaving our desires and ambitions behind for a time.

Kant and Schopenhauer believed that humor depended on activating a priori structures of funniness within the mind.

The fact that we are so often moved emotionally by characters and events in works of fiction indicates that we really believe these characters and events are true.