PHILOS 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fear Effect, Pathos
26 Jan 2017
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By exposing ourselves to bad actions we make ourselves bad plato assumption. Plato puts very severe limits on what he would do in a republic: point is to design a perfect state, questions whether he should let artists in. Would(cid:374)"t for(cid:271)id the arts, just hea(cid:448)y (cid:272)e(cid:374)sorship[ Only allowed to praise god and heroes. If you allow poets to do whatever they want, pleasure and pain will control the world: plato"s thought. Plato has a very simplistic view of the arts. Plato overlooks imagination: art is imaginary and so to is the pleasure, pleasure is within this work of imagination. If you were to make it real the pleasure would disappear: reality destroys what makes imaginery pleasurable. Can have a feeling of fear and pity without actually fearing anything. People who become extremely fearful of a movie is because they are using their imaginations too litte. Imagination has to be trained, practiced like any skills.
