Motif
banishment of poets from the ideal order
banishment_of_poets_from_the_ideal_order
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Civic Order and the Body Politic. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5943-6033 confidence: medium
Plato rejoices in banishing poets, associates them with inferior faculties, treats Homer and Hesiod as no rule of life, and is described as opposing poetry to philosophy, sense to abstract ideas.
The passage states that Plato rejoices in the banishment of the poets because they are concerned with inferior faculties.
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