Thread 24860284

Did Plato lack media literacy?

>>24860284 (OP)
Yeah he was too dumb to appreciate the sopranos

>>24860284 (OP)
Did OP a faggot?

>>24860284 (OP)
no, but Socrates did.

Yes, he couldn´t see the pro-trans message in the Illiad because he was such a chud cuck.

>Homer may indeed perhaps be the greatest poet of all time, but we still have to ban his work because... well... we just do, because I said so, okay???
What the socratic fuck was Playdough's problem?

>>24860409
He thought art corrupted morals. Simple as.

>>24861549
*starts twerking*

>>24860409
He wasn't wrong, we live in a post Greek world and don't take its theology seriously but if it did inform the world, the poetic prowess and even rational morality of the poem wouldn't be more helpful than it would be harmful. The way to think about this is for a modern Muslim man to say, Quran is an excellent literary work, but it needs to be put away.

>>24861549
>hmm yes we should burn the most ancient writings on our people and the gods because I don't understand the myths
I wonder if Plato had wished he could retract that position later in his life

>>24860284 (OP)
His position is that the average retard is going to read the Iliad and think it's ok to do dishonorable things because the heroes and gods do it and they are virtuous beings, so I can do the same. So at best, in a perfect society, poetry and "pure narrative" should only be done by philosophers to impart ethical values which the average person is too retarded to understand through philosophy, but who might get it if done through some stupid story. You always have to read Plato with the idea in mind that he thought only a few select people had the mental capacity for philosophy and that the average person is a easily swayed moron.

>>24862468
*the tide pod challenge*

>>24861733
Plato didn't think this. He was talking about what should be done in the most immaculate society one could imagine, one which he himself didn't think could ever possibly exist. Even then, he just thought such things shouldn't be said out in the open and that the common citizen had no business learning about how Zeus is a serial adulterer, for example. He was also trying to put forth an alternative to the Homeric education that was prevalent until then.
He also concedes that Homer is a great poet and he is fascinated by his writings, and that should anyone come up with a refutal for his treatment of literature, he could change his mind (which is maybe what Aristotle did). But for now, they were banning certain kinds of poetry from the Kalipolis.

>>24862475
The only reasonable response in a troll thread.