Allowing the Poets into the Republic: Plato’s War Against Public Opinion Revisited
By David Gosselin
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All great art has a naturally hypnotic power. Poetry’s lyrical and musical forms of expression have entranced human civilizations for millennia. Even today’s modern “pop” songs are by-and-large distillations and formalizations (often sup…
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