Plato: analysis of the beautiful – concept of imitation – imitation and truth (with references and reading of excerpts from the dialogues: Hippias meizon, Ion, Cratylos, Politics, book I) • Aristotle: theory of imitation and the difference between imitation and knowledge in On Poetics , ch. I – IX) • Plotinus: form – creativity – reduction to the divine • Renaissance: visualization of the empirical truth about the world • Baumgarten/Meyer: knowledge through sensation – (re)representation of the subjective truth of intuitive perception – the concept of aesthetic truth • Hume: theory of calisthesia • I. Kant: ontological and epistemological autonomy of the phenomenon of the beautiful (Critique of Critical Power → analytical of the beautiful)