The Middle Included: Logos in Aristotle (Rereading Ancient Philosophy) by Ömer Aygün

Author:Ömer Aygün
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI002000 Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
ISBN: 9780810134027
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2016-12-14T21:00:00+00:00

The Dilemma of Character Painting

Just as the photographic approach to the spectacle of natural beings turned out to be fundamentally flawed above in chapter 3, here we may see why all representations of human character become fundamentally problematic. In his discussion of the aesthetic education of children, Aristotle argues that visual representations reflect character only to a small extent:

These [visual representations] are not the likenesses of characters, the forms and colors produced are rather signs of characters and these are in the bodily modifications. But so far as there is a difference concerning the contemplation of these, the young should not contemplate the works of Pauson but of Polygnotus and of any other moral [êthikos] painter or sculptor. (Pol. VIII, 5, 1340a32–38)

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