Philosophers of the tradition, to the degree that they had thought about art at all, thought chiefly about the art of their own time: Plato, about the illusionistic sculptures of his contemporaries; 传统的哲学家们,就他们对艺术所做的思考的范围而言,想的主要是他们自己时代的艺术:柏拉图,想的是他的同代人搞的那些幻象性质的雕像;