PHIL 26109 /36109 - Plato's Aesthetics

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University of Chicago

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The ideas that poetic creativity is inspired rather than grounded in technical knowledge, that it is mimetic, that the audience of poetry suspends ordinary rational evaluation, that poems should be evaluated in terms of their moral effect-the way Plato developed these thoughts proved to be enormously influential on the history of Western poetics. In this course we will examin e Plato ? fascinating discussions of poetry with an eye to understanding the nuances of his theory and in the hope of understanding why this great innovator in poetic theory was also one of poetry 's greatest critics. Dialogues to be read in whole or in part incl ude Ion, Republic, Gorgias, Protagor as, and Laws. G. Lear. Autum n. (

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3.00

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Lecture

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WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

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(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Quarter

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