Images of excellence : Plato's critique of the arts /
Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he famously argued in the Republic that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama, and music are unsound, claiming they are conducive to warped ethical standards, detrimental to the psyche, and purveyors of i...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1995
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Rhapsody
- 2. Arts, Crafts, and the Production of Pleasure
- 3. The Fine and the Beautiful
- 4. The Formation of Character
- 5. Mimesis
- 6. Against Mimetic Poetry
- 7. Myth, Madness, Pleasure, and Play
- 8. Plato and the Philosophy of Art.
