The Contemporary Significance Of Plato’s Aesthetic Ideas

Nowadays, with the rapid development of the material civilization, people have a higherspiritual pursuit about beauty. The progress of beauty needs to be combined with the aestheticneed and reflect the ultimate care and pursuit of beauty of modern people. Aesthetics is adiscipline related closely to the real life and it should be further developed and perfected onthe basis of discarding its historical dross. People must obtain a reasonable cognition aboutbeauty although there is no unified standard in this field. Based on the quest about “what isthe beauty” in Plato’s Big Greek Bailey Aspen, this thesis re-recognizes the source of theaesthetic history and ponders the contemporary significance of Plato’s aesthetic thoughts.According to Plato’s thoughts, people could not find a generally accepted answer in theprocess of seeking the “beauty essence”. However, Plato puts forward a clear distinctionbetween the “beauty itself” and the beautiful things, and holds the opinion all the time that theperceptual and ever-changing beauty of real things derives from the rational and eternal"beauty management style ". From this perspective, Plato’s view about beauty is deeplyrooted in rationality and has an important spiritual association with shaping people’s nobleemotion. The contemporary aesthetic thoughts are more inclined to study the art. Plato’smanagement style theory admits that the artistic beauty could bring people pleasure, but hegives more emphasis on the positive social utility of beauty and thinks that the aestheticappreciation is a kind of rational cognitive activities. However, at the same time, thisperspective stresses rationality excessively and contains some radical ideas and contradictions,which make the art difficult to give freely. This bias leads to the constant discussion about thepractical value and aesthetic value of art works, enriching and developing the aestheticdiscipline. This article traces the Platonic management style to say, based on Plato beautyconcept emphasizes the relationship between morality and aesthetics play in contemporarysociety in beauty and the social function, enhance the aesthetic consciousness of people, tobeautify people’s lives, the perspective of promoting comprehensive development ofpresented their point of view.