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Plato's Contribution As A Critic
Plato's Contribution As A Critic
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Biography :-
• Plato ( 428/429 – 347 BCE ) was an Athenian philosopher from aristocrat family.
• When criticism of literature was in the darkness , a systematic critic take birth and
that’s Plato.
• Plato was the student of Socrates.
• In initial days Plato used to write poems , after get in touch with Socrates , he
distroyed all his poems and moved forward to philosophy and methematics .
• Established his own academy in 487 BCE , he taught his students Philosophy ,
Methematics , Natural science etc…
• Some powerful figures like : Aristotle , Theatetus (Methematics) and Eudoxus of
Canidus (Methematics) were associated with the academy of Plato.
Works :-
• That was the time when politics were so high and corrupt.
• No one focussing on education.
• That was the time of great poet Homer.
• In schools , only Homer’s Poems taught to students.
• Work of Homer compared to Bible at that time.
• Literature becoming immoral , irrational , and Corrupt.
• Philosophers started criticising that works , which was needful at
that time to save the Social conditions and Moral values.
Plato’s views on Poetry…
• Moral :-
- Poetry curept a person morally.
- Poets explain worng things about Gods. Ex. Homer’s – Odyssey and iliad.
• Emotional :-
- No creativity , Supernatural elements , Unnatural , Unconscious talks…
- Emotions or meaning never presented clearly.
1. Rational 2. Spirited 3. Desirus – ( lowest part of human soul , which get
pleasure to see or get irrational things or works . Ex. Plays , Poems etc..
• Intellectual :-
- Poets lives in illusion expect reality.
- Copy a thing from it’s surface level which is far away from reality.
- “ A poet Should ownered but from Plato’s ideal state Poets must
be removed.”
Or
- “ A poet Should be ownered , but They have entry in Plato’s ideal
State.”
Plato’s Achievements & Views of other
critics about Plato’s views on Poetry :-
• Plato’s Achievements :-
. Plato categoriesd Art in 2 parts :-
1st Fine Arts :- Painting , Music , Poetry , Drama etc…
2nd Useful Art :- Medicine , Agriculture , Philosophy, History etc…
• His student Aristotle and Many other Critics from different ages examined his
criticism .
• Sir Philip Sidney wrote that , Plato never said poetry is bad thing but only
attacked on bad poetry , which was immoral and corrupt.
• He wrote everything on the basis of circumstances of his own age particularly…
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