Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Philosophy and art/plato, nehamas/hume/kant. It needs to be at least 750 words.In his work on ‘Republic’, part three, Plato banishes some of th

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Philosophy and art/plato, nehamas/hume/kant. It needs to be at least 750 words.

In his work on ‘Republic’, part three, Plato banishes some of the imitations used by Aristotle but agrees to their use in other ways of imitation of good men in the society. Contradictory, in ‘Republic 10’ he agrees to Socrates banishment of imitation of the ideal society.

Nehamas believes that Plato is unable to take a general stand on inclusion of mimesis in his works. At times, Plato is seen to imitate actions of people, sounds, dramatic events, and looks of people to bring out his messages and at times, he criticizes mimesis. Nehamas does not believe in imitation adding value to an ideal city. He argues that Plato may have lifted ideas of what he saw in pictures and translated these pictures. He gives an example of a settee which may be actual or just a fallacy.

Nehamas idea of mimesis as just a misleading notion of getting readers to study various works of art holds much evidence. Mimesis may not really be valid and reliable way of conveying themes in the society.

Immanuel Kant is one of the philosophers that attempted to come up with the best criteria to judgment of taste. He brings into the open the ideas of universality and subjectivity. Kant argues that taste is judged on the basis of one’s sensation towards an object or person. This feeling is driven by one’s liking or disliking of someone or something. One’s taste will determine whether they describe something as beautiful or ugly. At times, people make a judgment on taste based on the influence from other sources, not from their own free will.

Kant’s ideology needs a lot of improvement especially in terms of influence as a factor for making sensible judgments. It is important to highlight the characteristic of gratification on which verdicts on beauty are founded. Beauty cannot be discussed autonomously of metaphysical factors about realism. The main question is whether beauty incorporates both features of being ugly and