ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In the Republic, Plato argues that poets have no place in an ideal state. They spread misinformation and corrupt the youth’s minds. The Republic written by Plato discusses the ideal state and still continues to influence debates on political philosophy.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to Plato’s theory of mimesis (imitation) the arts deal with illusion and they are imitation of an imitation. Thus, they are twice removed from reality. As a moralist, Plato disapproves of poetry because it is immoral, as a philosopher he disapproves of it because it is based in falsehood.

Detailed explanation-3: -To state it in contemporary terms: Plato believes both in literary truth-i.e., that fiction can contain truth-and in literary value as truth-value-i.e., that the value of a piece of literature depends, at least in large part, on whether its content is true.

Detailed explanation-4: -Plato’s three main objections to poetry are that poetry is not ethical, philosophical and pragmatic, in other words, he objected to poetry from the point of view of Education, from Philosophical point of view and from Moral point of view.