21ST CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE

21st century American culture

21st century American culture

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to make an analysis that I what ways Plato has an influenced the 21st Century American Culture. In this paper I will discuss the impact of Plato on the art section of 21st Century American culture. Plato brought "the first philosophical formulation proposed articulated all of these processes in a common conceptual space," says Badiou. The University of Athens, the philosophical journal alitheia, the Pataki and the French Institute of Athens celebrate this great form of French literature with an international conference devoted to work by focusing on the interpretation of Plato's work made him internationally known. The conference called "Platonism in the 21st century? Alain Badiou and the terms of philosophy 'and it is Friday afternoon and Saturday morning at the French Institute.

Influence of Plato on 21st Century American Culture

Plato has a great influence on the 21st Century American culture. Plato has always been in love with arts; he mostly talks about the arts and always paid the proper attention to the field of arts. Plato was the first philosopher who dealt with the value of art and poetry in particular, defending the view that it is useless and dangerous to society. Aristotle later, recognizing the importance of art, focused on healing the human soul nature of dramatic poetry.

According to the theory of ideas all the things we see around us with our senses as copies of ideas, real beings is deceptive and so fake. The art represents the significant things and imitate with copies of representations of real beings. The artwork, by Plato, is copies of the false things as copying a false world, the world we perceive through the senses. That is why Plato said that, although banned in society, art people will escape the misleading impression that adds to the art works in their lives.

This approach of Plato has brought a positive impact on the 21st Century American Art Culture. In 21st Century it is observed that the most of the artist are influenced by Plato's work. They are following the themes and the ways which were used by Plato in his art work. For Plato the term art is consistent with the term crafts. In this sense, art is the ability to do something that requires skill, expertise, and knowledge on how to realize an end. The arts are divided into the productivity or creativity. The latter involve a broad range of skills such as carpentry, architecture, weaving, etc. The creative art is impersonated. So the artists have imitated a double feature: either to replicate as closely as can the actual properties of the model, thus creating a true likeness, or to replicate the appearance of an object.

According to Plato when art is good it helps in proper formation of the new nature (laws, 664,672 e), which is why the state itself should deal with the issues relating to the impact of the arts in ...