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Images of excellence : Plato's critique of the arts /

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Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he famously argued in the Republic that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama, and music are unsound, claiming they are conducive to warped ethical standards, detrimental to the psyche, and purveyors of i...

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Main Author: Janaway, Christopher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Plato > Aesthetics.
Plato.
Plato
Flaemmings, Friederich
Aesthetics.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophie ancienne.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Aesthetics
Philosophy, Ancient
Poetik
Ästhetik
Literaturtheorie
Künste
Esthetica.
Arts > Aesthetics
Electronic books.
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