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Perspective voyage · Fourth century BCE

Plato — When a likeness obscures truth and the soul

Does an accurate likeness give knowledge, or merely look knowledgeable without teaching what is good?

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Why does art matter, and what makes a work valuable?

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Republic X joins an epistemic critique of imitation with a political and educational worry that painting and tragedy may address the soul's non-rational part.

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  • Plato's Aesthetics

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §3.3 Republic 10: the copy-making arts and the soul

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380 BCE · Around 380 BCE

Republic X asks poetry and images to answer for their epistemic and political effects.

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