The importance of Aistotle
Introduction
Aesthetics is a philosophical discipline that study Discipline that has not always existed, before being able to categorize correctly, there has been talk of emotions, beauty and art, without the notion of aesthetics that we have today, so it can be said, that in the past, they were established slowly the precepts that would lead to aesthetics to become what we currently know.
Developing
The most important example is Aristotle, which in his work about poetics is concerned with reflecting on the imitation, senses, emotions and their relationship with art understood from the Greek point of view, specifically, of poetry tragic; Where you can see a clear influence of his teacher, who cares about the mimetic character of art and his influence on the soul of those who presented themselves before him as spectators, however, the Estagirita proposes arguments that differ from those of Plato, preserving their concepts, but extending them significantly by removing the intention of censorship with which they were originally raised. It is well known that these writings did not intend to be published, but rather,
The reason for this work is to point out and analyze the importance of poetics in aesthetic study, I consider it prudent to do this analysis, because in a positivist sense, it is the first big step regarding the study of the emotions that took place in this discipline known as aesthetics; – It should be clarified that although Plato also has relevance in aesthetic notions, Aristotle is the one who tries to put his study in a methodical way, in the same way as the conception of mimesis and his concept of catharsis, unlike Plato, not censorship but that only exposes, so it manages to reconcile philosophy with poetry, giving it the possibility of finding knowledge within the arts. And this study even to date can be considered in force, because throughout history it has inspired playwrights,
Thus, throughout the entire treaty, Aristotle has the mission of demonstrating that poetry and its truths are not opposed to philosophical truths, since it faced the problem of morality previously raised by Plato, where it is established that the Mimetic character of poetry, makes it move away from reality and knowledge, and being in the Greek era, poetry is fundamental in education, then it must be regulated, how it says in the Republic: it gives the impression that all the works of this nature are the perdition of the spirit of those who listen to them, when they do not possess, as an antidote, to know about how they are. To be able to understand this, we must clarify the concept of mimesis for Plato, which is an imitation of the world that occurs in the arts, and that is problematic, because for Plato,
conclusion
As stated above, Aristotle takes up Plato’s concepts, but expands them by releasing them from their ethical problem, in the case of mimesis, Aristotle argues that imitation is natural in man since he is a child and it is precisely this, this, what that separates it from animals* and that this, feels some pleasure in the representation of what he knows, so the key to end the Platonic problem, states that there is universality in poetic truth, a universality that is found in the Emotions and human actions, which should not be represented as historical, because independent of individuals, emotions concern everyone and like philosophy, makes a second -order speech in which it moves away from the particular to talk about what general.
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