Friday, January 2, 2009

More on Plato and the Power of Poets

In Republic Plato condemns storytellers (epic and tragic poetry).
Ironically, Plato's famous student Aristotle defends storytelling in Poetics.

(see PLATO VERSUS THE ARTISTS)






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