Cypress: Form, Content, Essence; Plato’s Eidos Art Philosophy Approach

Good form or literally good idea, τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα is a concept in Plato's philosophy. It is described in Plato's dialogue, The Republic, Greek: Πολιτεία, translit. Politeia; Latin: De Republica. Ideas, forms, and good contents are flawless, eternal, and has been proven with good coordinates in common for all or somehow. Idea, form and content of cypress is reproducible, definable, generalizable with human coordinates, mathematical coordinates, geometric coordinates, volumetric coordinates that belong to rational, calculations and meanings. Finding ideas, forms and contents of cypress have rules and have lived as sign-symbols of etiquettes. The dialectic of idea, form and content of cypress according to internal or non-external or original form is same as external of cypress which has become a model, a symbol and a sign of art philosophy. The question of article is how cypress tree has become as a model of idea, form, content, essence in designing and architecture of ancient times.

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Cypress , Idea , Form , Content , Essence