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Ep. 80: What is Art?

Young Heretics

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What Is Mimesis?

Mimesis is a greek word, and it means something like imitation. The noun gets picked up in republic three and then in the poetics by aristotle as this core, essential thing to what art is. Aristotle unfortunately, only left us his work on tragedy specifically. So some of his comments here are specific to tragedy, but he begins with a larger question about how do we speak in rhythm or sing songs?

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