'Crucial indeed is the struggle, more crucial than we think - the choice that makes us good or bad - to keep faithful to righteousness and virtue in the face of temptation, be it of fame or money or power, or of poetry- yes, even of poetry'
Plato's theories of love and beauty have inspired thousands of poets, nevertheless the critics must not ignore Plato's continual attacks on poetry, especially in his final and complete exclusion on of poets his great Republic X'. Despite the fact that he often quotes poetry with obvious approval, in the Republic X' he strongly condemns poetry, both for its confusing of the intellect and for its corrupting of the emotions
Good' in Plato's terms which is bonded to what is just' is closely allied with pure reason, and therefore the emotional' part of the state, or of the man, must be purified' or eliminated if the state or the person is to be as good' as possible. In the end, what is good' is beyond this material world:......
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