A Short Thinking on Plato's Intrigue

Platonian esoterik in art and being has its significance on the potentiality of self-transcendence. Through art which interprets the world out of accordance with concepts or formal language but in dependence on metaphors and symbols, human being is exposed to the light of new interpretaion of the world. This is a whole unique way of understanding and interpreting the world and the relation of human being to truth of being.

What a delicious deciet of Plato. His contempt for the representers might be a brilliant intrigue to veil the truth of the finite.

Modernity enables mimesis(representation) in aesthetics to emancipate the meaning of art from the meaninglessness of the uninterpreted world. Acknowledging the finitude of human experience, finally human beings can percieve the world as the root of their conciousness. The conceptual schema of the interpretation of the world of human knowledge does not have to repress the desire not to be amenable to the conceptual analysis. Art is not anymore subordinate to rational enquiry of the traditional metaphysics. Art can be regarded as one of the ways or even the prominent way of understanding of the world. The metaphoric interpretation of the world may bring us back to life.



Angel Hye-young Kim