Dreamers | We seek to reconstruct Plato’s main arguments…

Dreamers ~

We seek to reconstruct Plato's main arguments

for his criticism of the mythopoeic education.

We defend the hypothesis that Plato, in The

Republic, recognizes the formative potential of

art, particularly poetry, although because of

ontological and gnoseological reasons, he had

to subordinate it to philosophy. the concepts of

truth, goodness, and beauty. We conclude that

only philosophy, as it overcomes the charms of

language, senses, and the sensible world, can

extend the limits and possibilities of art,

particularly art that uses words. As the just city

would only be possible by equating the king with

the philosopher, there cannot be a true poet

who is not also a philosopher...