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Mimesis (/ m ɪ ˈ m iː s ɪ s, m aɪ-/; [1] Ancient Greek: μίμησις, mīmēsis) is a term used in literary criticism and philosophy that carries a wide range of meanings, including imitatio, imitation, nonsensuous [clarification needed] similarity, receptivity, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, the act of resembling, and the presentation of the self.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is a book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in 1974. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography and the first of Pirsig's texts in which he discusses his concept of Quality. [2] The title is an apparent play on the title of the 1948 book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen ...
Plato argued in Timaeus that, to execute a good work, one must contemplate an eternal model. Later the Roman, Cicero, would write that art embraces those things "of which we have knowledge" ("quae sciuntur "). Poets saw things differently. Book I of the Odyssey asks, "Why forbid the singer to please us with singing as he himself will?
He was a close friend of Plato [234] and he is quoted in Plato's Republic. [235] [236] Aristotle states that the philosophy of Plato was heavily dependent on the teachings of the Pythagoreans. [237] [238] Cicero repeats this statement, remarking that Platonem ferunt didicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). [239]
In religion, transcendence refers to the aspect of God's nature and power which is wholly independent of the material universe, beyond all physical laws.This is contrasted with immanence, where a god is said to be fully present in the physical world and thus accessible to creatures in various ways.
The philosopher king is a hypothetical ruler in whom political skill is combined with philosophical knowledge. The concept of a city-state ruled by philosophers is first explored in Plato's Republic, written around 375 BC.
The Rhetoric is regarded by most rhetoricians as "the most important single work on persuasion ever written." [ 3 ] Alan G. Gross and Arthur Walzer concur, indicating that, just as Alfred North Whitehead considered all Western philosophy a footnote to Plato , "all subsequent rhetorical theory is but a series of responses to issues raised" by ...
Protagoras is credited with the philosophy of relativism, which he discussed in his lost work, Truth (also known as Refutations). [ 13 ] [ 19 ] Although knowledge of Protagoras' position is limited, his relativism is inferred from one of his most famous statements: "Man is the measure of all things: of the things that are, that they are, of the ...