ART - Art ART 2313 Lecture Notes - Socratic Method, Techne, Polykleitos
19 Jul 2019
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In 480, persians are pushed out through unity: greeks paid taxes to rebuild structures that the persians destroyed. Lasted 100 years: outsider (phillip) ends the war and unites greece again. His son alexander takes over the military. Historia: herodotus wrote down the history of the war immediately after war. Most people would write about it years later. Persians look barbaric, greece looks perfect; he is a bias writer. Invented by greeks to understand the world and human nature. Ethics: conduct towards others (morally right, socrates. Not why things happen (gods control everything). Socratic method: free speech introduced: government threatens socrates, socrates commits suicide by drinking hemlock. Aesthetics: the study of the nature of beauty in art, plato. Theory of forms: the perfect form of something only exists in the idea of it: everything we know is only an imitation of the perfect world.
