Since the restrictions on poetic form and content developed in Books II and III preceded the division of the soul in Book IV, Socrates thinks it would now be fruitful to revisit the status of poetry, armed with an account ( logos ) of the soul ( psuché )-a psychology-he lacked earlier. The ‘Ancient Quarrel’ between Poetry and Philosophy (10.595a–608b)Ģ The first of these is tying up a loose end regarding poetry in the ideal polis. It would be a fine place to end the Republic, but Plato has other ideas. Photograph by Jastrow (2006), Wikimedia, Public Domain, wiki/File:Muse_lyre_Louvre_CA482.jpg#/media/File:Muse_lyre_Louvre_CA482.jpgġ Book IX ends with Socrates telling Glaucon that if the polis one lives in is far from ideal, even if the ideal polis exists only in theory but not in reality, one can still ‘make himself its citizen’ (9.592b), and thus learn to live justly in an unjust or a non-just world. Detail of the interior from an Attic white-ground cup (c.
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