Plato and The Renaissance

Plato (428 - 347 BC) is considered one of the world's greatest philosophers. He is concerned about the specific problem of his own time, but Plato's idea has always been transcended. Over the years, his work has been translated into multiple languages ​​and studied by great thinkers all over the world. The revival of Plato's thought occurred during the Renaissance. Plato's idea exists in its original form, but translators and critics of the Renaissance often understood them in a different way than anticipated.

Plato is a famous figure of the Renaissance, but only a few examples of Platonic myths are found. Probably Plato's attitude towards visual expression - arguing that it lacks the highest philosophical knowledge and attacks poets and artists many times - Plato's own oppression to suppress and deter attempts to paint, sculpture, printmaking The mythical scene is very vivid. Perhaps the artist just feels that he is not qualified for this job. McGrath (2009) reviews and analyzes Plato's mythical character and the rare illustration of the landscape in the image of the Renaissance era: the synonym of the seminar, the tanks of the Phaedrus, the caves, and the backbone of the universe handled by the fate of the Republic

Kribanski, Raymond, 1982, the continuation of medieval Plato tradition, and Platonic Parmenides of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Klaus International Press. (Continuity of medieval Plato tradition: a review of the original Platonic system in London, Warburg Institute in 1939, and a new introduction and four additional chapters in the volume of 1982 were reprinted. "Medieval and Renaissance Ned of the era: The chapter in the history of Plato's research was originally posted in medieval and Renaissance study 2 (1943), pages 281-330 and was reprinted in a new preface. "

In the center of art, Plato and Aristotle are discussing the merits of idealism and realism, respectively. Plato holds his work "one of the few Renaissance works of platinum" Timios, and explains how the universe was made by a perfect mathematical model, form and ordinary geometric entities. . Raise his hand at his right Plato, showing this eternal form such as beauty, goodness, true ideal in this world, not transcendental, eternal purely ideological field