Mimese e o julgamento do belo em Leis II, 669a7-b3
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In Laws II, 669a7-b3, the Athenian Stranger suggests three criteria for the judgment of mimetic Works of art, including the musical arts (μουσική). Someone who aims to be a fair judge of those works must know three things: i) what the work of art is (ὅ τέ ἐστι); ii) whether it is correct (ὡς ὀρθῶς); and iii) whether it is of good quality (ὡς εὖ). The last criterium, which intends to judge the quality of the work of art, bears an interpretative ambiguity: it can be taken as an exclusively ethical criterium (that judges the moral quality of a certain work of art), as exclusively technical (that judges the artistical execution of it) or as simultaneously technical and ethical. In this context, this paper intends to investigate these interpretative possibilities, recognizing the conceptual and argumentative framework of Book II of the Laws, to have a better understanding of the passage and to argue that, in this context, ethical and technical judgment can overlap each other.
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