PLATO’S MORAL ARGUMENT AGAINST POETRY

Text topic: An Ethical Reading of Art

Text author: Милош Миладинов

The aim of this study is in attempt to demonstrate Plato’s appropriation of poetry into the corpus of educational practices in the ideal state. Taking into account some of Plato’s claims in Ion, the author draws attention to the possibility of Plato’s positive evaluation of poetry in the moral sense, given the poetic production. In addition, the author defends the thesis that poetry can have an extremely important role in the moral education of the individual, bearing in mind Plato’s views on poetic reception from Republic. In the end, the author concludes that, in a moral sense, good poetry is one of the conditions for achieving an ideal state.