期刊名称：Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics
电子版ISSN：1664-5278
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
页码：161-177
出版社：European Society for Aesthetics
摘要：The status of art in Plato's philosophy has always been adi.cult problem. As a matter of fact, he even threw the poets outfrom his ideal state1, a passage that has led some interpreters to as-sess that Plato did not develop a proper philosophy of art. Neverthe-less, R. G. Collingwood, wrote an article titled "Plato's Philosophyof Art"2. How can it be. What could lead one of the most impor-tant aesthetic scholars of the first half of the twentieth century tomake this thesis about Plato. To understand Collingwood's positionat that time, I will review it in a new light: his own philosophy of artat that moment as it was propounded in Outlines of a Philosophy ofArt3, a work he published that same year. I will also examine howCollingwood's position changed when he returned to the same sub-ject in 1938, on the publication of The Principles of Art. Finally, Iwill end this article defending the correctness of Collingwood's ear-lier interpretation of Plato's position on art
