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The Replublic The Original Unabridged And Complete Edition (Plato Classics)

Plato

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BCE, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and histor...

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Monday Morning Podcast

It was mentioned that Plato criticized both comedians and painters in the book, possibly viewing art as frivolous.

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Now that I made fun of this guy This is actually really interesting and and now we may fairly take the comedian and place him by the side of the painter for he is like him in two ways

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 5-11-20

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 5-11-20

It was mentioned that Plato criticized both comedians and painters in the book, possibly viewing art as frivolous.

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Now that I made fun of this guy This is actually really interesting and and now we may fairly take the comedian and place him by the side of the painter for he is like him in two ways

First in as much as the comedians creations have an inferior degree of truth Yeah guilty as guilty as charged in this I say he is like the painter and he is also like the painter in being concerned with an inferior part of the soul

Therefore we shall be right and refusing to admit him into a well-ordered state Because he awakens and nourishes and strengthens the feelings and impairs the reasons the reason

This guy was a fucking idiot. This guy sounds like a conservative moron trying to shut down the arts He's a man. I just called Plato a moron. I did he is a manufacturer of images and is very far removed from the truth

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