Plato's Republic
What does Plato have against poets? In what sense may all art Plato's belief was that art is fundamentally based on imitation. It was this imitation which made art inferior, combined with the unsuitable moral content of some art. Plato's condemnation of art is seen by some as too rationalist and "depriving it of all its charms" (Otto Modern objections to Plato's theory of art assert that he fails to discover the specific nature of artist creation; that the process of imitation is necessary: creating a new reality from an artist's own imagination. W.J. Verdenius, in examining the whole issue, asks two questions which I shall deal with: "Firstly whether Plato really intended imitation to mean a slavish copy, and secondly, whether modern aestheticians are right in disregarding the imitative elements in art and in considering phantasy and self-expression to be its fundamental On poetic inspiration, Plato says in the "Ion": "God takes away the mind of these men and uses them as his ministers...in order that we who hear them may know that it is not they who utter these words of great price when they are out of their wits, but that it is God himself
soul/mind has been classed into various groups. In the Renaissance characters of Prospero, Caliban and Ariel), an idea based on Plato's. In as much inseparable as essential. An analogy is that of a language the Intuitive Soul (as allegorically exemplified in "The Tempest" with the But the imitation lies on a lower level of reality than its subject -as Plato information is well documented. The Athenians for example, claimed painter, then "has neither knowledge nor correct opinion about the is supported in hindsight by modern science. His attack on the lack of poetry can be criticised, for it is only at third remove from reality as
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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