POL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Patina, Cephalus, Bad Life
7 Mar 2018
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Plato"s the republic book 10: critique of artistic imitation (mim sis, this critique is carried out with greater metaphysical and psychological sophistication than in book iii. He suggests that the artist whether painter or poet is at a third generation [remove] from nature , i. e. , his work is a faint but deceptive reflection of what is real. He makes this point with the couch illustration (597b-). Homer: for example, he discounts the charm of musical form, focusing instead on the frequent banality of its lyrics (601b). Poets/musicians are tricksters because they seem like they know everything, but this knowledge is shallow and thin. Ex. writers writing about dentistry seem like they know a lot. Ex. listening to music, and discovering what the lyrics are. Plato is saying do not be tricked!: plato"s psychological analysis of drama is also quite perceptive.
