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The Writings Of Plato And Dantes
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For more time than artists would like to admit we have been
fighting a man who haunts us from a grave long forgotten, and for just over
600 years we have paid great respect to a man whose marble tomb lies in
Florence. Since the dawn of time people have passed on traditions and myths
to teach us th ....
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.... Plato it is yet
further from the truth. For literature is an imitation of the world. It was
Plato who originated the idea that the poet is but an imitator of something
already imitated in its form. Making poetry a third layer thus two removed
from perfection. That is to say what the poet writes i s but mimicry of the
real thing and not of worth in a society where people value contributions
which enhance the community(Plato 21-29). Plato's ideal state is such a
society. The tenth book of the Rep.... |
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