Platón y la crítica de la poesía imitativa
ISSN: 1132-8177
Year of publication: 2009
Issue: 24
Pages: 9-32
Type: Article
More publications in: Laguna: Revista de Filosofía
Abstract
The aim of the criticism of Plato for the imitative poetry is to discredit the basis of the oral Greek culture: the archaic polytheism. That’s why, in addition to the moral and political discredit of the poets according to the new rationalist conception of the divinity, Plato points with his criticism to the cognitive element which makes possible the oral culture: the mimesis .However, Plato is victim of his own criticism since he recognizes that the philosopher also imitates: an ontologically legal imitation as it’s about the world of the ideas.