Modern and Post-modern Approaches to Truth and Art

Modern and Post-modern Approaches to Truth and Art
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Modern and Post-modern Approaches to Truth and Art
Art has a cognitive function and is a means of truth acquisition. For many years, art has been seen as a tool of the highest knowledge existing to humankind. It can arouse moral and ethical concerns and emotional thoughts that people encounter daily. Plato viewed an artist as an image imitator who tended to be eliminated from truth. This excerpt reflects the reality of art and truth.
Plato described art as imitating things in the real-world. Nevertheless, such things for Plato were glooms of their ultimate pictures. Thus, art tends to become further from truth than the neighboring world it copies. He claims that all arts, especially epic poetry, are the imitation of reality and the poet's imitator of reality (Amadi, 2022). On the other hand, Aristotle argued that art is based on understanding the true nature of things. An artist's skill is manifested in such recognition and provides aesthetic inclination. Furthermore, Aristotle stressed the creative principle of art. The work of art represents the idea that individuals have an integral, collective human nature.
Schelling, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, and Nietzsche propose their perspectives on art, demonstrating its revelatory and transforming quality above sheer representation. They are considered the "Art as Truth" school of thought. Schelling purported that reality can be demonstrated in its transcendental core through art. He believes that individuals can understand the fundamental unity of the universe and exceed the limits of reason via aesthetic experience. Additionally, Schopenhauer purports that art describes the “Platonic Form” (Hannan, 2009). He tends to be unsure whether art describes the nature of the not-quite-real or thing-in-itself (Hannan, 2009). It is assumed that he should have precisely purported that art reveals the basic forces of the environment, which are purely extraordinary. Besides, Nietzsche believed that art is a means of making sense of things via the dark side of human nature. It is a tool for encountering existence's horror and finding its meaning. Moreover, Heidegger noted that the aim of art is beauty but not truth, while truth is the honor of reasoning...