ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle is criticizing Plato’s basic approach to political philosophy, an approach that runs throughout the Republic : that of treating the citizens of a city as mere parts … and the city itself as a whole with an end or ends above or beyond the ends of the individuals within the city” (124).

Detailed explanation-2: -Plato objected that poetry plays on the emotions and thus undermines the highest part of our soul, the part that should at all times be in control-Reason. Aristotle cunningly showed, using the notion of catharsis, that while poetry does indeed play on the emotions, it does so in a way that enhances our reasoning!