Beauty between Essence and Appearance in Plato’s. Essay on Art as a Discourse of Truth

ABSTRACT: The problem addressed by this article is that of knowing whether beauty in general and art in particular can say, express and represent the truth. Plato’s thought, the inaugural gesture of philosophical aesthetics, is the framework from which we question this possibility or not for aesthetics to be epistemological, even science. The article shows that if beauty as an idea has an undeniable link with truth, and if art is itself a form of expression of truth, they are only an incomplete, apparent form. Only philosophy, the art of criticism, dialectics and essences, can tell the beauty and truth of things.

Keywords: – Appearance; art; beauty; essence; truth