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XIII — From painters to poets: Plato’s methods in Republic X
- Abstract:
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Throughout much of the critique of poetry in Republic X, Socrates exploits a parallel between painting and poetry. I argue there are two distinct methods at work here, the ‘similarity’ and ‘heuristic’ methods. The first uses painting to discover the general definition of mimesis, which is then swiftly applied to poetry. The second describes certain features of painting before using independent arguments to show that these also apply to poetry. That Socrates sometimes uses the parallel in this...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Journal website
- Volume:
- 116
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 289-309
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-06-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-9264
- ISSN:
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0066-7374
- Source identifiers:
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638877
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pubs:638877
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uuid:82ddc2e0-303d-481f-81da-2c76f968c76e
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- pubs:638877
- Deposit date:
- 2016-08-17
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- The Aristotelian Society
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 The Aristotelian Society. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at:https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aow017
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