PLATO AND ARISTOTLE
Thursday, July 18, 2019 Aristotle and Plato's thinking activity.. HOW FAR DO YOU AGREE WITH Plato's OBJECTION TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ARTISTIC LIBERTY ENJOYED BY CREATIVE WRITERS? NAME THE TEXT, NOVELS, PLAYS, POEMS, MOVIES, TV SOAPS ETC. WHICH CAN BE RIGHTFULLY OBJECTED TO PLSTO'S OBJECTIONS? ANS : I am gonna say if we talk about the literature of Plato and Aristotles time, Plato was wrong, we know that Plato was totally against poetry, according to him, It was twice removed from reality, it is inspirational and not rational, it was written in the state of franzy, it leads to the arousal of emotions which is inappropriate and harmful, poets are liars. According to Aristotle poetry represents reality in a very useful way from which we can learn. FOR EXAMPLE, 1) William Shakespeare, in his drama, Hamlet describes how Hamlets indecisiveness leads him to his dawn fall. 2) Rudyard Kipling, in his poem If, is a father's attempt to provide his son ...