The Institute on Religion and Public Life

Here is a link to an article written by the President of Theopolis Institute, Peter Leithart, that touches base on some of the points discussed during Monday's scheduled class period.

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2017/02/plato-among-the-poets

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  2. This is interesting in that it participates in a common Plato-scholarship phenomenon: taking Socrates' banning of poets in the hypothetical Republic as being representative of (Plato as objecting to Poetry)(philosophy being in eternal opposition to the ideals of poetry).

    But as we have seen, indirect methods of philosophizing and education run rampant through Plato's writings. It is no surprise that the chronology of the cultural moment led to similarities in tone or subject matter. Is Socrates antagonistic or educative (or both)?

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