Plato believed that art cannot imitate sin

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1、 Plato believed that beauty is something that can be called "beauty itself". Beauty itself precedes beautiful things and is absolute without any time or space limitations. The fundamental task of aesthetics is to seek the "beauty itself" that transcends all beauty.

2、 The Collected Dialogues of Literature and Art is a collection of Plato's statements on literature and art. Classic excerpt: The past era, whether in terms of war or other aspects, was not a great era. People are the most important, everything else is the result of human labor.

3、 The rational world, the realistic sensory world, and the artistic world constitute the existing world, among which the artistic world imitates the sensory world, the sensory world depends on the rational world, and the rational world is primary.

4、 The essence of art lies in imitating reality, and reality is the shadow of ideas, while art is the 'shadow of shadows'. Plato denies the authenticity of the objective world, thus denying the authenticity of art, believing that art is lower than reality.