by phillipw | Apr 26, 2020 | PL
Plato’s Probity Paradox “But in fact he [Socrates] concludes (a) that potential guardians should imitate only good men … and (b) that they should imitate as little as possible.” ~ Penelope Murray, Plato on Poetry, 5 “To thine own self be true” ~ Polonius If...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2020 | ED, PL, SO
Pigs Would Fly if Their Sties Were Noble Poor Socrates. He thought that if the young Were wrapped in images of beauty, they Would take good in and then could climb each rung Of rightness. Lovelinesses would convey Them up and straight to healthiness of soul. Their...
by phillipw | Apr 25, 2020 | MI, PE, PL, PO
But What if I, when Speaking in my Own Voice, Make a False Representation of Myself? Elementary, My Dear Plato It seems that Plato means that if I speak Or write in poetry, but in my own Persona and my voice, that bodes not weak And dodgy like mimesis. In this clone...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | PH, PL, PO
The Ion, the Phaedrus, the Republic When someone else is all mixed up, we tend To sneer at what they have to say, so why Not Plato? Must we allow him to bend And contradict his arguments? Is high Philosophy supposed to work like that? He has the voices in two...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | PL, SO
Stabbing in the Cave-like Dark before There Were Laboratories or Electron Microscopes, Plato Presumed that There Are Souls and that They Grow. How Very Poetic. “Halliwell claims that Socrates’ remarks about poetry early and late in the Republic differ because the...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | PA, PL
Nightmare in Plato’s Cave “Antony Hatzistavrou (‘“Correctness” and Poetic Knowledge: Choric Poetry in the Laws’) defends the claim that ‘a work of art is beautiful if and only if it successfully represents a beautiful original’.” ~...
