How we appreciate

beauty and art

By what general criteria do we appreciate beauty?
 1.PLATO
• everything tangible
in nature “flows”;

• there must be a
reality behind the
“material world”;

• what is eternal and

immutable;

• world of ideas.
2. EROS
Diotima’s Ladder:
From Lust to Morality - YouTube

LOVE
creating and giving birth in beauty
the yearning for immortality

EROS
mediator between heaven and earth
 3. PLATO'S THEORY OF THE SOUL
• The soul
The soul yearns to fly home
is eternal and immutable; on the wings of love
in the world of ideas; to the world of ideas;

• the knowledge
was inside me, in the soul;
The soul continue to yearn for the beauty of the world of ideas, but look for it in material things.
What parts of the body do you
think are most related to beauty?