PHILOSOPHIC CONCEPTIONS OF BEAUTY IN ANCIENT AESTHETICS

The research work is devoted to the examination of the definition of beauty in ancient philosophers’ worldview conceptions such as Aristotle, Platon, Pythagoras and Stoics. The author studied the basis development of philosophic ideas in the period of the ancient philosophy applied to idealistic conception of world understanding the definition of beauty. Materials for research are based on works of ancient philosophers and scientific publications on the topic of research as well. The method of research is a comparative analysis that allows synthesizing theoretical and conceptual basis of definitions; the interpreting method of scientific and fiction philosophy works; synthesis method and analogy of receiving data for systematization and definition patterns of world view ancient philosophers positions’ conceptual basis. Results. The definition of beauty is examined consequently with words “soul”, “body”, “good’, so, it is morally oriented in the ancient philosophers’ work. It is used with strong relationship with idea about beauty in surrounding material and spiritual world. The conception of beauty was analyzed and generalized in the ancient philosophers’ treatises and arguments. The author evaluated aesthetics aspect of the idealistic conception of beauty. The period under consideration characterized by rising and formation of anthropological aesthetics replaced cosmological theory and made a great impact on the definition of beauty in nature and art. The author examined idealistic and subjective approach to the definition of beauty. The conclusion is that ancient philosophers enrich the definition of beauty in art and nature, focusing their statements on subjective side of the relationship between a person and surrounding world. The article presents the analysis and interpretation of Aristotle, Plato’s philosophical writings, defined idealistic concepts’ basis of beauty in ancient philosophy.