Plato's Republic
In Our Time: Philosophy
Plato's Art in the Republic
In the in book ten, when he's talking about representing ages, of this, that and the other. He's talking about exactly what he's doing. And some part of that, it seems to me, is to pull the rug out from any any straightforward interpretation of what he's said. So any straightforward view that says that he's shutting down on poetry, because actually he recognizes at the same time, that some of the mans that he uses to get the reader to be shocked into reflecting are themselves poetry or the equivalent. It's a beautiful irony, but that that's a sort of an extra stication,. The basic point is that he there is this worry that, what is
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