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<blockquote data-quote="Misanthrope Prime" data-source="post: 9862660" data-attributes="member: 6776166">Traditionally, that which was made by the gods was considered nature, not art. Art is mankind's attempt to replicate some literally super-natural truth, in the sense that the truth descends from something above nature like the gods.Consider Plato's conception of the realm of forms; art is what happens when a human being has an &quot;idea&quot; of something in their head, say the idea of the perfect chair, and that idea was ultimately made by either the &quot;unmoved mover&quot; or Jehovah or Hephaestos or some other entity. The human artisan will then take wood, a base material of the natural world, and shape it into a chair, but the idea of a chair is not made of wood, it's made of nothing, so by taking the idea of the chair and bringing it into physical reality it has been in some form &quot;debased&quot; by mankind's imperfection.Here's a great video on the classical understanding of art and aesthetics, which also underpins a lot of Christian and Islamic aesthetic philosophy (which I assume you allude to due to your use of the singular god).[MEDIA=youtube]_Ccofp8KQV8[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Misanthrope Prime, post: 9862660, member: 6776166"] Traditionally, that which was made by the gods was considered nature, not art. Art is mankind's attempt to replicate some literally super-natural truth, in the sense that the truth descends from something [I]above[/I] nature like the gods. Consider Plato's conception of the realm of forms; art is what happens when a human being has an "idea" of something in their head, say the idea of the perfect chair, and that idea was ultimately made by either the "unmoved mover" or Jehovah or Hephaestos or some other entity. The human artisan will then take wood, a base material of the natural world, and shape it into a chair, but the idea of a chair is not made of wood, it's made of nothing, so by taking the idea of the chair and bringing it into physical reality it has been in some form "debased" by mankind's imperfection. Here's a great video on the classical understanding of art and aesthetics, which also underpins a lot of Christian and Islamic aesthetic philosophy (which I assume you allude to due to your use of the singular god). [MEDIA=youtube]_Ccofp8KQV8[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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