PHILOS 3XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Noble Lie
26 Oct 2017
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He recommends forbidding stories in which gods and heroes are depicted acting badly. At most, they should imitate good people acting well (395c): note socrates" appeal here to the principle of specialization. The arts, education, and character: socrates: The modes (i. e. the kinds) of music should be carefully regulated, to ensure that all music is appropriate to brave people of good character. The metre of music should also be regulated, to keep it simple, rhythmic and orderly, boring for the sake of and orderly soul. Even architecture and painting should be regulated, with a view to instilling good character. All of the arts (music, poetry, painting, architecture) can - and should - contribute to developing good character in the citizens: to developing a good soul: aristotelian side: catharsis is valuable, arts provide outlet. The auxiliaries (i. e. the specialist military class) #2: the term guardian (phulax) generally refers collectively to groups (1) and (2).
