aristotle on poetry

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The debates on "what is just?" is eventually linked to "What is good?". Therefore, Plato raises the fundamental question of whether the pleasure produced by poetry is good enough for the well being of his state. He came to the conclusion that it is not, because poetry has the tendency to corrupt the youth of his state...
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He came to the conclusion that it is not, because poetry has the tendency to corrupt the youth of his state. For one thing, poets such as Homer and Hesiod make a "bad representation of what gods and heroes are like" (Plato, 55). Their misrepresentation persuade the youth of the city that "gods produce evil and that heroes are no better than human beings" (Plato, 69)...
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