Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential critics today approach art through philosophy.” — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers and others… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential critics today… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“There Pericles says that the essence of the Athenian democracy is that any citizen, regardless of class or profession, should be able to take… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
