Summary) Theoretical Background 1: Traditional Thoughts on Art

Past times western philosophers had many thoughts about art.
Is art necessary? What are the influences that art has upon the world?
Western philosophers has had many ideas to get answers to these questions.
On my point of view, I feel that art plays a role as the leader that conducts culture.
By looking through the works of art in the past, it is easy to understand that remains of culture of the corresponding period.
On the other side, art can have numerous effects for the future.
As we go along the class, we'll be looking at more kinds of effects on culture.
Although this was my first time to attend an English class and was not able to understand some parts, this class has been an interesting class.
From now on, I'd like to try to think more deeply about the philosophers mentioned during class, such as Plato, Aristoteles, Greek mythology, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Goodman, Heidegger.