{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn502_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn502_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn502_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plotenn/enn502.htm","summary":"11. Now as to the arts and crafts and their productions:\nThe imitative arts- painting, sculpture, dancing, pantomimic gesturing- are, largely, earth-based; on an earthly base; they follow models found in sense, since they copy forms and movements and reproduce seen symmetries; they cannot therefore be referred to that higher sphere except indirectly, through the Reason-Principle in humanity. On the other hand any skill which, beginning with the observation of the symmetry of living things\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 11","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":294}