"Pg 269 § 40. Opposites throw light
upon each other, and therefore the remark may be in place here, that the proper
opposite of the sublime is something which would not at the first glance be
recognised, as such: the charming or attractive.
"Our view, then, cannot be reconciled
with that of Plato if he is of opinion that a table or a chair express the Idea
of a table or a chair (De Rep., x., pp. 284, 285, et Parmen., p. 79, ed. Bip.),
but we say that they express the Ideas which are already expressed in their
mere material as such. According to Aristotle (Metap. xi., chap. 3), however,
Plato himself only maintained Ideas of natural objects: ὁ Πλατων εφη, ὁτι ειδη
εστιν ὁποσα φυσει (Plato dixit, quod ideæ eorum sunt, quæ natura sunt), and in chap. 5 he says that, according to the Platonists,
there are no Ideas of house and ring. In any case, Plato's earliest disciples,
as Alcinous informs us (Introductio [pg 274]in
Platonicam Philosophiam, chap. 9), denied that there were any ideas of
manufactured articles.
"One would suppose that art achieved
the beautiful by imitating nature. But how is the artist to recognise the
perfect work which is to be imitated, and distinguish it from the failures, if
he does not anticipate the beautiful before experience? And besides
this, has nature ever produced a human being perfectly beautiful in all his
parts."
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