Reflections on Religious Art خطاب!

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In this same treatise, he points out (number 866): Therefore, if someone claims that the criterion for judgment in music is the pleasure derived from it, we will not pay attention to his words; an art whose goal is to create pleasure, is not worthy of being considered serious, nor should serious effort be made in its way; serious effort is only worthy of the way of an art whose goal is to embody an image of beauty. Therefore, while Plato believes in a theoretical support for the artist, considering the natural human inclination toward order and harmony accompanied by a kind of pleasure, this does not mean the true value of art; rather, it is something that accompanies art, and thus in the Laws treatise he says: "God has combined this matter in us humans with harmony and order. In the Symposium treatise, where the discussion is about the ascent of the soul to true beauty under the inspiration of Eros, Plato says (number 012): From beautiful forms and shapes (such as bodies), man ascends to the vision of beauty that is in souls, and from there to knowledge and the love of wisdom, and toward the vast ocean of beauty and to the "lovely and enchanting forms that it contains," until he reaches the vision of that beauty which is "eternal and everlasting," neither created nor perishable, neither subject to increase or decrease, nor is one part beautiful and another part ugly, nor is it beautiful at one time and unbeautiful at another, nor is it beautiful relative to one thing and ugly relative to another, nor is it beautiful here and ugly there.