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... condemning all art as pleasant , but only trivial art as merely pleasant ; that , in explaining how art can be used for propaganda , he is speaking not as an aesthetic theorist but as an educational theorist in a land where training in ...
... condemning all art as pleasant , but only trivial art as merely pleasant ; that , in explaining how art can be used for propaganda , he is speaking not as an aesthetic theorist but as an educational theorist in a land where training in ...
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... condemning all art , but only inferior art ; his quarrel is not with poetry , but with the poets . For he finds that they have ruined the theatre , besides harming themselves , by catering to public taste . " He protests repeatedly 5 ...
... condemning all art , but only inferior art ; his quarrel is not with poetry , but with the poets . For he finds that they have ruined the theatre , besides harming themselves , by catering to public taste . " He protests repeatedly 5 ...
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... condemning all art , but abuses of art - or what seemed to him abuses . There is a passage in the Sophist 13 which supports the view that Plato disliked technical refinements in art . The Stranger is contemptuous of the practice of mak ...
... condemning all art , but abuses of art - or what seemed to him abuses . There is a passage in the Sophist 13 which supports the view that Plato disliked technical refinements in art . The Stranger is contemptuous of the practice of mak ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Condemnation of Art in Republic X | 38 |
The Social Functions of Art | 74 |
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