To take an example – Plato never talks about abstract painting, but his philosophy leads to it. It is hard to see how Plato can be interpreted in a different way. He said that imitation deceives people and blocks them from “the truth”, and that to receive this “truth” – imitation must be forbidden – and the only things that are to be accepted is philosophical and religious behavior towards things – pleasure being rather evil and deceiving.

Plato also confirmed of Hymns to the gods and writings that worshiped the political regime. But a free playwright or painter – displaying mythological themes and producing entertainment? Plato literally states that this sort of human being should live in exile.

In the end, shrinking Plato to Kant it’s like putting Leonardo and Picasso on the same level.

Let’s carefull not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Since Kant, all thinkers have based their aesthetics more or less on Plato, who can be nicknamed The first Modernist.

To solve today’s situation, we need a different education, based on the philosophy proposed by a man, who defended poetry and craft in a time when these longings were attacked as enemies of society. To build a new renaissance, we need the ideas of Aristotle instead of that of Kant and Plato, and young students must be provided with the Aristotelian alternative way of thinking – because it all begins with the universities.