(Originally Written Feb. 29, 2008 in the Journal)
What is Art?
Leo Tolstoy
Ch. 7
From the doubt of Church-Christianity beauty became the standard of good and bad art.
Plato's reasoning about goodness and beauty is confused and full of contradictions. The Europeans sought to set this flawed theory as law in their aesthetics. They twisted the Greek teachings to suit their own mindsets.
They held that the science of aesthetics was founded by the Greeks and disappeared for 1500 years only to be revived in Germany by Baumgarten. But, in fact, it did not disappear because it had never existed at all.
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