School_In_Athens

School In Athens “SCHOOL IN ATHENS” The philosophical significance of Raphael’s “School in Athens” is quite obvious to me. In the very center Plato and Aristotle are made to stand out more than anyone else in the painting. Raphael choose to put these two walking down the center carrying their respective famous works. Plato is pointing to the heavens while he carries theTimaeus, and Aristotle who is carrying the Ethics is pointing outwards in my opinion to the Earth. These two men are the main characters in ancient philosophy; they explained where we came from and the earth that surrounds us. The many people surrounding them could be followers of the two different thoughts each on their respective sides of Plato and Aristotle. I also believe that this painting is also a fantasy. Raphael was fantasizing about what the school must have been like. People all over the painting, two, plato, aristotle, school, raphael, philosophy, men, earth, ancient, very, thoughts, significance, respective, pointing, people, opinion, included, done, center, carrying, came, athens, about, zoroaster, works, wishful, wished, while, walking, time, thinking, thinker, think, thetimaeus