Abstract:
In history of western philosophy, Plato is considered as a great figure and some scholars
argue that western civilization and culture much owe Plato to his richest contribution to
western thoughts. German philosopher, Nietzsche is second to none and he is considered
as a pioneer of post modernism. Both the philosophers have a profound influence on
people and thoughts of the west. Greek aesthetics takes a different shape in the hands
of Plato and he creates an immortal aesthetics for many millenniums to come. For Plato,
works of art are mere illuglons created by artists. Artists create copy of the copy and
works of art are shadows of the original ideas. Artists with ignorance create works of art
and bring harmfulness to soul by persuading lower part of soul, emotional part. The
philosophers who are possessed of wisdom know true beauty in the world of ideas.
Nietzsche opines that Greek and Christian-aesthetics
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greater extent, have damaged
the souls of western world. Plato as well as Nietzsche 'agree the point that to justify pain
and suffering of this world, works of art are created by Artists. Nietzsche believes that the
two mechanisms (transformative a2d interpretative processes) proposed by him make
perfect personalities in modern world and he also believes that mature aesthetics would
create perfect and self-sufficient souls comparing in traditional Greek and Christian
aesthetics. Plato tries to find the solutions to this problem which goes beyond this sense
experienced world but the solutions of Nietzsche to this problem are given within limits
of this world. This paper attempts to review the solutions proposed by Plato and Nietzsche
to the problems of Aesthetics
