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Honar Nameh
University of Art, Tehran
No. 1, 1997
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Beauty
Caught in the Labyrinth of the Palace of Thought
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Kashef Soltani,
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Beauty Caught in the
Labyrinth of the Palace of Thought: A Look at the
Concepts of Beauty in the Garden of Reason and
Imagination
Aesthetics has been, and still is, a preoccupation of
the world's great philosophers and thinkers, and
artists. We discuss it in a summary fashion, hoping to
arrive at the true meaning of "Beauty".
Aesthetics is defined, its etymology discussed, and
the original use of it are noted, in order to
demonstrate its elaborate extent. Views of
philosophers, such as Benedetto Crose, Socrates and
Plato, and artists such as the Greek sculptor,
Polyclitus, are noted.
One group of philosophers and scholars consider beauty
a changing fact, and another group considers it
unchanging. In the light of the views of Eastern
thinkers, such as Sohrevardi, who posits a philosophy
of taste, we enter upon this transcendental world,
which we have likened to the labyrinth cave of Crete,
and which in the West has not let to a solution. We
hope that we approach nearer the aim of understanding
the science of beauty.
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