If this reading succeeds it will a) explain several historical anomalies and factual inconsistencies of the dialogue, and it will show b) that the dilemma (techne/mania) of the dialogue is false, c) that the dilemma is intimately related to a view of language as names for a world which is everything that is the case, d) that the flaw which the dialogue exhibits in the rhapsode, Ion, is at least as much a moral flaw as an intellectual one, e) that those moral and intellectual flaws are not transferable simpliciter to the poem or poet of the rhapsode's performance, or even necessarily to a rhapsode and f) that these same moral and intellectual flaws can be found in philosophers. Keywords: Ion, Homer, poetry, divination, rhapsody, art, expert, divine, possessed. You can also read the full text online using our. And while we think that poetry is as defensible as philosophy, and that Plato thought so as well and throughout his life, I will here examine only that first small dialogue, Ion, reading it as a poem should be read, for what it does not say, but engenders, as much as for what it does say, or in other words noting what it does as much as what it says. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more.

That is, we would here be friends to both Plato and the truth, to poetry and philosophy. Republic, Books II, III, X 3.1 Republic II 3.2 Republic III 3.3 Republic X 3.4 Concluding Observations about the Republic’s quarrel 4. The Dialogues of Plato - Ion - AZW3 azw3 34.08 KB 300 hits. Plato is (perhaps paradoxically) known for the poetic and rhetorical qualities of his own writings, a fact which will also be discussed in what follows. In the interest of both historical accuracy and philosophic truth the use of the word 'Plato' as such a marker must be stopped. Free Books of Ancient Greek philosophy in English, PDF, ePub, Mobi, Fb2, Azw3, Kindle. In Ion, Plato proposes that passions are something poetic, beautiful and necessary. To think that Ion is a light-hearted piece with no philosophical weight, or Plato the enemy of poetry is to hold to one of the most mistaken ideas in the history of ideas. This article analyzes Platos arguments regarding passions.

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