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... Plato , who taught philosophy to Aristotle when he was a young man . Plato held it against poetry that its emotional appeal is a threat to the authority of reason , that it tells lies ( simply , the stories told by poets are untrue ...
... Plato , who taught philosophy to Aristotle when he was a young man . Plato held it against poetry that its emotional appeal is a threat to the authority of reason , that it tells lies ( simply , the stories told by poets are untrue ...
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... Plato's argument is so unworthy of himself and of his sub- ject that one suspects him of knocking it hastily together in order to give himself a chance to attack art , en passant , from the standpoint of his central doctrine of ideas.1 ...
... Plato's argument is so unworthy of himself and of his sub- ject that one suspects him of knocking it hastily together in order to give himself a chance to attack art , en passant , from the standpoint of his central doctrine of ideas.1 ...
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... Plato's feet , he formulated in its place a principle of indwelling form . The carpenter's table which for Plato was an unreal semblance of the real idea is now reckoned to be partially real . Aristotle expressed this partial reality by ...
... Plato's feet , he formulated in its place a principle of indwelling form . The carpenter's table which for Plato was an unreal semblance of the real idea is now reckoned to be partially real . Aristotle expressed this partial reality by ...
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New Fictions for Old I I | 11 |
Imitation and Action | 21 |
Human Beings | 29 |
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