Philosophy and Poetry
A New Look At An Old Quarrel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9440775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy W Burns (Baylor University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 326-338 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055415000076 |
| OpenAlex | W2333105843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
The subordination of poetry to rational guidance has been denounced as a symptom of a specifically Western sickness, with its origin in Plato's Republic . But Plato's disposition to the poets is more complex than is often supposed. Although Book Three's education in civic virtue includes a call for an austere, civic poetry, in Book Ten Socrates finds the wisdom of this provision to need a serious reconsideration, one made necessary because philosophy has emerged as the true answer to the search for a genuinely fulfilling, happy life. Book Ten's reconsideration quietly shows that great poets like Homer are wiser than the earlier examination had suggested, especially about death, and are even indistinguishable from Socratic philosophers in their understanding of and disposition toward death and so in the related matter of the best human life
Aesthetics · Art · Civic virtue · Disposition · Epistemology · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · SOCRATES · Socratic method · Virtue · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
The Mermaid and the Minotaur
Fear of Diversity
Plato's Republic
Plato’s Defence of Poetry
The Cambridge History Of Literary Criticism
Antidotes And Incantations
Plato and the Mass Media
Soul Division And Mimesis In Republic X
The Life of Philosophy and the Immortality of the Soul
Images of Excellence
The Ironic Defense of Socrates
Poetry, Thumos, And Pity In The Republic
The Fire and the Sun
Essays on Heidegger and Others
Unity of Platos Gorgias The
The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism
Poets and Mimesis in the Republic
The Tragedy of Political Theory
The Interpretation of Plato's `Republic
Contingency, Irony, Solidarity
Virtues of authenticity
The Problem of the Noble and the Practicality of Platonic Political Philosophy
Nicias in Thucydides and Aristophanes Part II
The Fragility of Goodness
Plato's Critique of Hedonism in the Philebus
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |