
1. Plato's Philosophy of Art
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
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The Value of Art and its Ability to Provide Knowledge
This chapter explores Plato's argument regarding the value of art and its ability to provide knowledge. The speakers discuss whether the means of obtaining knowledge in art could have been achieved through non-artistic forms of communication, and consider the idea that valuing insight in artworks doesn't necessarily imply gaining new knowledge.
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