Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets (Classic Reprint)
Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets (Classic Reprint)

Author: Carleton Lewis Brownson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781334214950

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Excerpt from Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets Xenophon tells us further9 - and his statement is im portant for the present purpose - that Socrates was accused of selecting the worst passages from the most famous poets and making them a basis for harmful teachings.10 Several verses from the Iliad11 and one from Hesiod12 are then cited which Socrates was charged with perverting. It appears, then, that Socrates was a lover and a student especially of Homer but also of the other poets. All this we might of course fairly expect of a seeker after wisdom who lived in the age of Pericles and numbered among his acquaintance a Nicer'atus,13 who knew by heart both the Iliad and the Odyssey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets, by Carleton Lewis Brownson
Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets, by Carleton Lewis Brownson

Author: Carleton Lewis Brownson

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2018-02-04

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781376669732

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Plato and the Poets
Plato and the Poets

Author: Pierre Destrée

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9004201831

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Plato’s discussions of poetry and the poets stand at the cradle of Western literary criticism. Plato is, paradoxically, both the philosopher who cites, or alludes to, works of poetry more than any other, and the one who is at the same time the harshest critic of poetry. The nineteen essays presented here aim to offer various avenues to this paradox, and to illuminate the ways poetry and the poets are discussed by Plato throughout his writing career, from the Apology and the Ion to the Laws. As well as throwing new light on old topics, such as mimesis and poetic inspiration, the volume introduces fresh approaches to Plato’s philosophy of poetry and literature.

The Poetics of Philosophical Language
The Poetics of Philosophical Language

Author: Zacharoula A. Petraki

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 3110260972

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A close analysis of the Republic's diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato's remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic's prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration and polymorphy that accompanies the world of Becoming as opposed to the Real. Plato's distinctive discourse thus can transmit, even to those figures focused on the visual within his Republic, the shiftiness of the base and the unjust.

Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets, by Carleton Lewis Brownson - Primary Source Edition
Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets, by Carleton Lewis Brownson - Primary Source Edition

Author: Carleton Lewis Brownson

Publisher:

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781293233795

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Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets, by Carleton Lewis Brownson
Plato's Studies and Criticisms of the Poets, by Carleton Lewis Brownson

Author: Brownson Carleton Lewis 1866-1948

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2013-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781313774239

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The Philosopher's Song
The Philosopher's Song

Author: Kevin Crotty

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780739144060

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The Philosopher's Song is a full-length treatment of Plato and the dynamic course of his philosophical thought, regarded from a distinctly poetic point of view. Kevin Crotty demonstrates how Plato's invention of philosophy needs to be situated within the context of a society where poets were cultural authorities, whose teachings emphasized such tragic themes as the instability of things and the indeterminacy of moral terms. The interest of Plato's philosophy lies to a great extent in the compelling interest of what he sought to repress-the poetic and political heritage of a world tragically conceived. Plato's attacks on the poets are notorious. Despite his apparently frank hostility, however, his relation to the poets was exceedingly complex, argues Crotty. Even the banishment of the poets in the Republic turns out to be, more deeply, a recruitment of mimetic poetry for Plato's metaphysics. Once endowed with a metaphysical significance, however, the poets posed a serious challenge to Platonic idealism, and spurred Plato to revise considerably his metaphysical scheme. Crotty ultimately concludes that the views of politics and ethics in Plato's later works return in many ways to the insights of the poets.