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Plato and Aristotle emphasized the representational role of art: the idea that a work of art must in some way mimic, depict, or “stand in” as a sort of sign for something else. Some philosophers ...

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Plato and Aristotle emphasized the representational role of art: the idea that a work of art must in some way mimic, depict or "stand in" as a sort of sign for something else. Some philosophers ...

Plato. Credit: lentina_x, Flickr, CC BY 2.0/ The philosophical dialogue, The Republic, was written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato around 375 BCE. It describes his vision of an ideal and just ...