الفن والمحاكاة عند أرسطو

Abstract

Plato banned some types of music for ethical and security reasons, thus limiting the function of art to glorifying the gods and spreading enthusiasm and adhering to virtue and high morals, hoping to ascend from the sensible to the sensible, so that art would be a means to purify the soul and elevate it to the realm of ideals. While Aristotle, the natural world, based his aesthetic theory on metaphysical thinking, based on the concept of goodness devoid of benefit, as well as on the concept of beauty, with an emphasis on the edifying role of music, then moving on to the concept of poetry and tragedy, and both of them saw that fine arts have an important role in education and guidance to goodness. And human virtue, given that art, in his view, has a purifying function for the human soul from painful emotions, through appreciating the arts, especially poetry.