RE106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Idolatry, Privative A, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The treachery of images: plato"s rejection of artist from the republic, artists are three stages removed from the truth and imitating their forms will introduce error into the republic. Aniconism: aniconism is the absence of material representations of the natural and supernatural world in various cultures, particularly in the monotheistic abrahamic religions. This ban may extend from only god and deities to saint characters, all living beings, and everything that exists. The phenomenon is generally codified by the religious traditions and as such becomes a taboo. When enforced by the physical destruction of images, aniconism becomes iconoclasm. The word itself derives from greek "image" with the negative prefix an- (greek privative alpha) and the suffix -ism (greek - ). Judaism ancient israelites: the israelites had a ban on representing god, ywhw i am that i am, the name hashem, g_d, breaking of idols, exodus 32, moses vs golden calf image from children"s bible.
